Re: [Trisquel-users] 100% Open Source Hardware & 100% Open Source Software

[duncan]

The future is certainly in ARM architecture. ARM makes sense on mobile  
computers such as Laptops because it can be run drawing little power. While  
they are certainly not as high-performance as x86, the newest ARM chips are  
great for many everyday tasks, such as web browsing, word processing,  
lightweight video games, and image editing. From a software freedom aspect,  
though, many don't implement anything like Intel's Active Management  
Technology, and computers such as the Google Chrome OS laptops use Coreboot:  
Libreboot was even ported to one. This is important for privacy. This is why  
I think that the first truly libre piece of hardware will be an ARM laptop,  
probably powered by a Rockchip processor because these don't enforce  
signature checks on bootloaders or anything, allowing modifications such as  
Libreboot.