[Freedombox-discuss] Novena vs. Olinuxino
ST
smntov at gmail.com
Sun Aug 25 12:54:41 UTC 2013
While looking for suitable hardware I found this:
http://linuxgizmos.com/crowdfunding-a-custom-linux-sbc-the-easy-way/
It looks like one can order custom board if ordering 50 or more units.
Maybe one can ask it to be boxed (and maybe open-sourced?).
What do you think?
On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 18:34 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting ST (2013-08-20 17:38:50)
> > I'm not a hardware profi and was looking around to buy a small arm
> > computer to run Debian on it. I watched the FreedomBox video from
> > DebConf yesterday. Novena project (
> > http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3265 ) was mentioned there with
> > significant excitement because its an open hardware project. My
> > question is - how is Novena better than the open hardware project
> > OlinuXinu ( https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/ ) that is also
> > appears on the FreedomBox's TargetedSoftware webpage? Is Olinuxino not
> > completely open? Are there some binary blobs? Why to wait for Novena
> > if Olinuxino is already there and runs Debian out of the box?
>
> As Bdale mentioned in the talk, Novena has better technical specs.
>
> Also, even if OLinuxIno _boards_ are Open Hardware, the Allwinner SoC
> used on them is poorly documented, and not yet in mainline Linux tree.
>
> Might be, however, that other boards also including crypto features
> emerge by the time Novena becomes real.
>
> ...and might be that the FreedomBox Foundation is one of the "partners"
> mentioned at recent blog entry about Novena:
> http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?tag=novena
>
> Perhaps someone affiliated with the Foundation would like to share what
> they know about this...
>
>
> - Jonas
>
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