On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Paul Boddie <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I thought that some of you might be interested in this, at least in the > context of laptop projects, what other people are doing, and the finished > products: > > http://lwn.net/Articles/667040/
thanks paul > I guess the Raspberry Pi aspect of it means that people are willing to throw > their money at something that doesn't really seem to be a particularly good > product: tied to the RPi, no speakers or audio outputs (apart from on the RPi > board itself), the usual proprietary software dependencies and promotional > activity, reportedly dodgy keyboard... it sounds very much like it's "first generation". that, and they have gone out early instead of doing a limited run and a slower ramp-up, put it out there to as many people as wanted it, problems-and-all, to get more eyes-on for feedback and potential solutions. that sounds pretty much exactly like one of the core guidelines of successful software libre projects - "release early, release often". let's see if they follow up with the "release often" bit. > Also of interest is that their desktop version recently got funded very > quickly indeed. Again, the same RPi dependencies and constraints apply. I > guess it shows that there's a market for such stuff, very true _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
