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What are the other machines that are close to free? I know about Librem Purism, but I seem to remember another thing is being funded that might be based off of

What are the other machines that are close to free? I know about Librem Purism, but I seem to remember another thing is being funded that might be based off of Risc or something.

librexpr 9y ago
I don't know about Risc, but you might want to check out the FSF's Respects Your Freedom certification[0]. The article doesn't mention it, but the Minifree T400 is itself RYF-certified. You might also want to check out h-node[1] (also by the FSF). I haven't looked into it much, but it seems to be a site dedicated to finding hardware that can be used with completely free software. [0] https://fsf.org/ryf https://fsf.org/ryf [1] https://h-node.org/ https://h-node.org/
- jancsika 9y ago
  There's also the EOMA68 project: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop And somebody else who appears to be building a shader compiler for the Mali 400 GPU here: https://github.com/yuq/mesa-lima https://github.com/yuq/mesa-lima If both these projects succeed that would be a fully free arm laptop with a fully free GPU driver. Apparently it will also be possible to print out the laptop itself using a 3d printer apparently being designed and built by that same EOMA68 guy to deliver the boxes people already ordered. Also it looks like the touchpad is just a little square of lcd touchscreen. If that part of the design is kept theoretically you could play quake inside the touchpad.
amock 9y ago
The Talos II is a modern workstation https://raptorcs.com/ https://raptorcs.com/.
- girvo 9y ago
  Oh wow; I've been doing a lot of work with POWER8 servers recently, and this looks absolutely brilliant. Definitely going to see if we can preorder one.
duskwuff 9y ago
The Novena laptop is pretty rough from a hardware standpoint, but it's usable with 100% free code, all the way from the bootloader to the OS. There's an optional firmware blob for the GPU; everything else is free and has public documentation. https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena

What are the other machines that are close to free? I know about Librem Purism, but I seem to remember another thing is being funded that might be based off of Risc or something.

librexpr 9y ago

I don't know about Risc, but you might want to check out the FSF's Respects Your Freedom certification[0]. The article doesn't mention it, but the Minifree T400 is itself RYF-certified. You might also want to check out h-node[1] (also by the FSF). I haven't looked into it much, but it seems to be a site dedicated to finding hardware that can be used with completely free software. [0] https://fsf.org/ryf https://fsf.org/ryf [1] https://h-node.org/ https://h-node.org/

jancsika 9y ago
There's also the EOMA68 project: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop And somebody else who appears to be building a shader compiler for the Mali 400 GPU here: https://github.com/yuq/mesa-lima https://github.com/yuq/mesa-lima If both these projects succeed that would be a fully free arm laptop with a fully free GPU driver. Apparently it will also be possible to print out the laptop itself using a 3d printer apparently being designed and built by that same EOMA68 guy to deliver the boxes people already ordered. Also it looks like the touchpad is just a little square of lcd touchscreen. If that part of the design is kept theoretically you could play quake inside the touchpad.

amock 9y ago

The Talos II is a modern workstation https://raptorcs.com/ https://raptorcs.com/.

girvo 9y ago
Oh wow; I've been doing a lot of work with POWER8 servers recently, and this looks absolutely brilliant. Definitely going to see if we can preorder one.

duskwuff 9y ago

The Novena laptop is pretty rough from a hardware standpoint, but it's usable with 100% free code, all the way from the bootloader to the OS. There's an optional firmware blob for the GPU; everything else is free and has public documentation. https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena