On 06/02/16 13:16, Fabio Pesari wrote: > With libre hardware designs, anybody with a 3D printer and some skills > to assemble computers could just build their own cheap laptops and sell > them with a free user-friendly GNU/Linux distro like Trisquel > preinstalled. No need to rely on the big hardware manufacturers anymore, > to pay Microsoft or to care about things like UEFI and DRM!
This already exists. It’s the EOMA-68 Laptop. luke demoed it working at fosdem and did a lighting talk. *free software friendly: absolutely, the standard is designed to be, there is already a mips brain card that is RYF. *cheep: designed to be from the beginning. *upgrade path: yep. to get a faster laptop you keep the laptop and pop in a new faster "brain card", easy! Check it out: http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/laptop_15in/news/ News Article: http://liliputing.com/2016/01/interview-with-eoma68-libre-laptop-developer-luke-kenneth-casson-leighton.html Get Notified of when the Crowd Fund begins: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop Follow the links for lots of info: http://rhombus-tech.net/ Subscribe to the mailing list for updates, to ask questions, express your interest and discuss: http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/pipermail/arm-netbook/ White Paper: http://rhombus-tech.net/whitepapers/ecocomputing_07sep2015/