I thought Lemote hardware was effectively FSF hardware - or has Mr. Stallman
missed some proprietary stuff with his:
http://www.lemote.com/en/products/Notebook/2010/0310/112.html
The old model was free software friendly. The closest thing short of the ben
nanonote. The problem is it is a netbook, slow, dated, etc. Not something
really useful for the majority. The ben nanonote is a small pocket device.
Closest thing we've seen to 100% free software friendly system.
This is something I do not understand, we start to fall behind the
mainline.
How much of a delay is there in reality? I am not a programmer and do not
understand the implication.
I will go over (read and ponder) in detail your link.
I've read it more than once in the past and I do not understand some parts.
It is not a philosophical break; I do not know the details and the
significance of the choices regarding some items due to my non-engineering
background and
He probably has a valid point here. It's sort of like Rubén's (Trisquel's
lead developer) need to download Ubuntu and patches go upstream (Ubuntu) that
aren't specific to Trisquel.
As far as end-users go I don't think there is any real need.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
Looks like it uses the Linux kernel with blobs and all. Perhaps it requires
some of those blobs to work?
I'll email him and ask about that.
(*) require a closed-source firmware blob, but the system is functional and
bootable without the blob.
Not sure how much more free software friendly this actually is or isn't. I
also noticed one of the wifi/bluetooth cards he links to is almost certainly
dependent on non-free firmware.
I am not familiar with those details, and not knowledgeable enough in
hardware or software to know how that fits in exactly, however I will add
that the chip itself has something like 6000 pages of open documentation and
the boot is or can be done via u-boot.
Someone brought that up re: WiFi in the comments and other cards are
available and can be changed because the computer is made to easily come
apart.
Initially he doesn't intend to make many units and has suggested that orders
be done via github and code, sort of a hackers only thing.
What is open source?
I am disappointed to learn that proprietary software is involved. We in the
free software community should have higher standards. I think this is a good
starting point for a minimum level of free that should be expected:
http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/criteria
Since they billed the machine open laptop I wrote to Bunnie:
I see you're using the vanilla Linux kernel with blobs and all. Are you
aware of the Linux-libre project which is Linux minus the binary blobs? Have
you tried whether Novena runs on Linux-libre?
If it does, it would surely make
Split this off from my original thread
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/some-current-free-software-friendly-hardware
as this is worth watching on its own.
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Every element of the Novena laptop will be open source.
Idea originated here in December 2012:
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