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> LibraryBox is sadly no longer under development. A combination of hardware/firmware lockdown made the continuation of the project's goals untenable. I've bee
by VyseofArcadia 3y ago
> LibraryBox is sadly no longer under development. A combination of hardware/firmware lockdown made the continuation of the project's goals untenable.
I've been worried for the last few years that this kind of lockdown is going to be the end of open source OSs for the masses.
Right now we have secure boot, and it's feasible but a pain to work around it to, say, install Ubuntu on a Dell XPS. But the next step after that is, "no, you can't disable secure boot. That would be insecure."
- duxup 3y agoThere's a lot of hardware out there that is available though isn't there? Arduinos, Raspberry Pi ? Maybe not ideal for this situation, but still available, with lots of handy extra hardware rather than relying on repurposing some other hardware not at all meant to be used in this way.
- VyseofArcadia 3y agoThat's great for hobbyists and tinkerers, but when Joe Schmoe off the street thinks, "man, I sure am tired of the full screen unskippable ads in Windows 15", he's not going to follow that up with "I guess I'll go buy a low power hobbyist board to tinker with an alternate OS for nerds". Whereas today you can still just install Linux on the same laptop you're already using, and sometimes even Joe Schmoe off the street does just that.
- duxup 3y agoI think maybe you're making a more general statement than what LibraryBox was about. LibraryBox was hardly anything that Joe Schmoe was capable / willing to do either.
- VyseofArcadia 3y agoI am indeed making a more general statement.
- logtempo 3y agoIt's kind of already there. When I search for "hardware computer without secureboot", the first two pages is "how to install w11 without TPM". We're not even talking about linux.
- palmscenter 3y agoThe issue is the phones to be served by the Box, not the Box itself which can easily run on the Pi.