On Thu, 2013-10-10 at 11:26 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > A way to tap into the resource of people already owning an Raspberry > Pi and interested in taking back control over their own computer use > and communication needs, would be to announce that Raspberry Pi will > also be a reference platform for the Freedombox project.
I think we ought to support as much hardware as possible. But announcing Raspberry Pi as a "reference platform" is likely to be controversial, because of the non-free blobs required. Now, I have always heard Bdale talk about the Debian-based Freedombox as a "reference implementation", implying to me that other groups would build different compatible Freedombox software implementations (e.g. Freedombox on Fedora, which afaik doesn't exist). So I would suggest shifting the language slightly; there is only one "reference implementation" (i.e. Freedombox on Debian), which may work on various hardware platforms. Make the reference implementation hardware-agnostic as far as possible, and then individual users can make the decision about whether Raspberry Pi is acceptable. Otherwise, we're still stuck in the hardware business, just a different piece of hardware. I confidently predict the current generation RPi Model B will look dreadfully underpowered in two years, and we'd better be ready to support whatever hardware comes along next. That's not to say that you shouldn't write the support for setting up servers vs. routers vs. mesh networks and so on - many people might find that useful, and you could achieve the goal of attracting more people to the project. How cross-platform can this be made? -- Tim Retout <dioc...@debian.org>
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