So, based on the LCD picked, it’ll be a chrome pixel with an arm CPU. And dual Ethernet. Kind of interesting, but I feel arm is still kinda slow unless you aggressively tune the software.
It is a bit sluggish, although some of Linux distributions are starting to get pretty
decent at it. I ran Ubuntu on my samsung arm chromebook for a while,
and it wasn’t too bad. I’m very excited for the work bmercer and patrick
are doing on arm, I’d love to see OpenBSD on a platform like this.
Also, there were many who didn’t get what we’re trying to do — as indicated by suggestions along the vein of “use a Core i7 and a fast nVidia graphics chip and sell it for under a hundred bucks and then I’d buy it”.
It must be disheartening hearing these kind of comments from the outside. I don’t think people really understand that the end goal is not to just build a cheap laptop, but to build an open laptop…
Kudos to bunnie and the team! This is indeed real hacking. If it doesn’t exist or work the way you want it to then hack it up!
So, based on the LCD picked, it’ll be a chrome pixel with an arm CPU. And dual Ethernet. Kind of interesting, but I feel arm is still kinda slow unless you aggressively tune the software.
It is a bit sluggish, although some of Linux distributions are starting to get pretty decent at it. I ran Ubuntu on my samsung arm chromebook for a while, and it wasn’t too bad. I’m very excited for the work bmercer and patrick are doing on arm, I’d love to see OpenBSD on a platform like this.
It must be disheartening hearing these kind of comments from the outside. I don’t think people really understand that the end goal is not to just build a cheap laptop, but to build an open laptop…
Kudos to bunnie and the team! This is indeed real hacking. If it doesn’t exist or work the way you want it to then hack it up!