I think it might be a bad idea for the RPI2 to be used as a "freedombox". Firstly microsoft is apparently RPI's partner in any case and that could mean digital locks are forthcoming at any time. There are other alternatives out there besides. One to avoid.
ljones On 2/4/15, Anders Jackson <anders.jack...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2015-02-04 15:48 GMT+01:00 Sunil Mohan Adapa <su...@medhas.org>: >> On Tuesday 03 February 2015 11:47 PM, Felix Oxley wrote: >>> >>> Is it possible that the Raspberry Pi 2 is or could become an/the ideal >>> platform fro FreedomBox? >>> >>> :-) >> >> Despite its shortcomings, it would be nice to have support for this >> popular device for the mind share that it has. > > Yes, that is an huge advantage, and price is nice to $35. > >> If someone already acquired one, it would be nice to try our current >> raspberry pi image and see if works. After that we can build a armhf >> image rpi2 for full performance benefit. > > No, have not yet. But what I understand, the only thing that is > needed to get the 4 core to work is to add another kernel, then the > use space will be the same. Recompiled to take advantages of the new > instruction set and its speed. > >> -- >> Sunil > > /Jackson > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss > -- :) SP _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
