[Freedombox-discuss] .....a box not bigger then a mobile charger

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 04:50:42PM +0100, Marc Manthey wrote:
>First welcome all,

Welcome to you too! :-D


>i stumbled a couple of days before over a video from eben moglen and 
>i was very amazed about his passionated speech and knowledge.
>
>My main question about the vision of a "freedombox "  , what is the 
>hardware he mentioned in his speech - a box not bigger then a mobile 
>charger ?

Please do have a look at our wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox

More specifically here: 
http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/TargetedHardware


>Are there any mini micro board , even smaller the Alix or Soekris 
>whitch would fit the requirements

For "boxing software", yes.

But for "boxing well-integrated, well-maintained software" the Plug 
devices are at a sweet spot between availability, economics, hardware 
specs and other variables.  An important factor is that it is running 
_today_ using Debian packages.


  - Jonas

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