--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 2:07 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Any estimate of how much cost it'd add, per unit, to buy big-enough > microSD-cards for the bigger distributions pledged for, and prepare and test > the cards? i'd need to do it. times a thousand. which is why i'm not hugely keen on the idea. > Personally, I'm definitely fine with paying more for this. > How about total cost for that? Depending on the amount, one or more > persons might wish to make a donation to cover, or help cover, this cost for > everyone. that would be great > computer OTHER than the EOMA-68 lap-top, or (2) use a "live" version of some > "Linux-GNU"-distribution, just so that I could (3) download the OS for the > "EOMA68-A20"-card. one option is to get a very small card (512mb, 1gb) and put a "loader" OS on that. if they're $0.25 or $0.50 in qty 1000 then that's worth considering. instead of $4 for an 8GB card. say. > And my current lap-top, seems to not like the libre > distributions which I have tried on it (at least, endless "sleep" with > "Trisquel"). Maybe other backers or persons planning to back this, are > likely to have the same problem if merely given download-scripts? exactly. > I guess that a different way to put this problem, is- > how "important" is it at this stage of EOMA68, to "include" persons who > are not already running Linux-GNU? honestly as this is early-phase anyone should expect to have things that they'll need to deal with... *but* for those people not able to cope i expect *you guys* (those with technical knowledge) to help them out. > (Maybe this question is going to only be > true for the "A20"-cards, because maybe others like "RK3388" shall not have > this problem. And the "A20"-cards might not see many production-runs. But > I still plan to back at least one "A20"-card.) yay. thank you. >> and/or to offer much smaller 128 MB or 256 MB microSD cards which have an >> absolute bare minimum OS on them, with scripts that will download an OS >> onto > > I have tried hard to practice safe "Internet"-use with the systems which > I have and previously had (yes, moving from "Microsoft" to a libre "OS", > should be a quantum leap on that "issue"). :) > How secure would this "bare minimum OS" be, for both down-loading AND > installing onto a microSD-card (supplied by me)? if it's designed properly, none. > Ideally, I hope that (1) it does not permit any connections other than > downloading one of several particular "OS"-images, via "URLs" which are > white-listed as part of the "bare minimum OS", not whitelisted: hard-coded. > and (2) it afterwards checks > the image to see whether the crypto-graphic hash (better than MD5) matches > the hash which the "bare minimum OS" says is valid for that image. bittorrent would automatically do that. command-line version is btdownloadheadless. very tired. stopping here. sorry. please do carry on the conversation. i'll pick it up later. l . _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
