On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Gordan Bobic <gor...@bobich.net> wrote:
> Maybe I'm missing something here, but if if you want to do that you > might as well scrap the Freedombox project and use one of the new > Samsung routers with OpenWRT. OpenWRT is a full fat Linux and runs on a > lot of ADSL/WiFi routers. can i assume you mean one of these? http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/samsung/smt-g3xx0 to meet mass-market insane competitive pricing, typically these are 32mb RAM and 8mb NAND flash, with if you're lucky a 250mhz MIPS processor. it's therefore pretty damn easy to hit the $20 to $30 target in "plug computer" form-factor that eben envisages. by a long long margin. so the problem is that there's enough challenges to overcome without adding to the list by having to fit into extreme embedded environments as well. perhaps in a couple of years down the line, when there's a mature software base, a gsoc project might conceivably be to port the freedombox software off of debian and onto openwrt, on the basis that even emdebian would be absolutely impossible to fit into 32mb RAM and 8mb of NAND flash. l. _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss