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>The PineNote Community Edition is aimed at Linux developers with an extensive knowledge of embedded systems and/or experience with mobile Linux. Is this a mis

>The PineNote Community Edition is aimed at Linux developers with an extensive knowledge of embedded systems and/or experience with mobile Linux. Is this a mistake? The Developer edition has the same note (along with a more obvious red warning at the top), and if it's true, then I don't really see what the point of the "community" edition is.

throawayonthe 2y ago
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josephcsible 2y ago
The Developer Edition says "At present time, there is no default OS for the PineNote." and "The device ships without an operating system with flashing mode enabled." The Community Edition says "The OS build on this PineNote production batch contributed by PINE64 community developers. The Community Edition PineNote will be great for early adopters and should still be considered as BETA phase product." So the difference is a beta OS versus no OS at all.
- MostlyStable 2y ago
  In that case, it sounds like they made it more accessible, which is great, but if that warning is actually warranted, and not hyperbole, then they didn't (in my opinion), improve things enough to warrant calling it a "community" edition. Yes, technically any group can be a community, even a group of embedded systems linux developers. But I don't think many people would think of that if they saw something marketed as a "community" edition, especially in contrast to an already existing developer edition. If they meant that this is for a community of developers, then I don't know why they wouldn't just keep calling it the developer edition.
  - rjsw 2y ago
    When the developer edition was released there wasn't a driver for the eink screen, there have been screenshots posted of what it looks like now that the screen works.
  - aniviacat 2y ago
    Ime it's fairly common to name things "community edition" if they were created with the help of the community, which is the case here.
    - MostlyStable 2y ago
      Fair. That's a pretty reasonable reason to name it that. I still think it's slightly confusing, but I suppose that the majority of the market for this is probably people who are going to have enough background to know.
packetlost 2y ago
They reworked the pen and chassis it looks like. The community update they had a couple of weeks ago (on their blog) has a good amount more detail on the state of things.

throawayonthe 2y ago

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josephcsible 2y ago

The Developer Edition says "At present time, there is no default OS for the PineNote." and "The device ships without an operating system with flashing mode enabled." The Community Edition says "The OS build on this PineNote production batch contributed by PINE64 community developers. The Community Edition PineNote will be great for early adopters and should still be considered as BETA phase product." So the difference is a beta OS versus no OS at all.

MostlyStable 2y ago
In that case, it sounds like they made it more accessible, which is great, but if that warning is actually warranted, and not hyperbole, then they didn't (in my opinion), improve things enough to warrant calling it a "community" edition. Yes, technically any group can be a community, even a group of embedded systems linux developers. But I don't think many people would think of that if they saw something marketed as a "community" edition, especially in contrast to an already existing developer edition. If they meant that this is for a community of developers, then I don't know why they wouldn't just keep calling it the developer edition.
- rjsw 2y ago
  When the developer edition was released there wasn't a driver for the eink screen, there have been screenshots posted of what it looks like now that the screen works.
- aniviacat 2y ago
  Ime it's fairly common to name things "community edition" if they were created with the help of the community, which is the case here.
  - MostlyStable 2y ago
    Fair. That's a pretty reasonable reason to name it that. I still think it's slightly confusing, but I suppose that the majority of the market for this is probably people who are going to have enough background to know.

packetlost 2y ago

They reworked the pen and chassis it looks like. The community update they had a couple of weeks ago (on their blog) has a good amount more detail on the state of things.