If we want a reference device, it needs to be as boring as possible.
Let's not repeat the XO situation.
The issue with XOs now seems to be that they are all special snowflakes
with their special kernel versions. This is my understanding of why we
can't update them to the new versions of upstream software.
Devices with mainline kernel are very good. I'm sure everybody is
familiar with this experience; having a random old laptop (XP era,
older maybe) that can run all the latest distributions, Supporting my
software on that laptop is not hard - it is the same as the Fedora on
every other laptop.
If we choose something with a special snowflake kernel, the support
burden falls on us to keep the kernel up to date so that we can run new
Systemd versions for the new Fedora versions.
Thanks,
Sam
On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 10:40 PM, Dave Crossland <[email protected]> wrote:
On Jun 21, 2016 10:41 AM, "Walter Bender" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> soliciting a small donation of hardware from Google as a reference
platform.
Who do we know at google who could help with that?
Despite google fonts being a client, I don't know anyone there who
could help with this :(
In any case, which laptop they might give us may not be the best to
recommend.
There are 2 obvious candidates to me, the new "olpc laptop" available
from olpc inc to USA resident individuals for us$200 plus us$100
shipping from china, with other countries shipping fees varying; and
the One Education "Infinity" which is us$350 plus shipping from
Taiwan/ Australia.
The olpc unit ships with sugar and its cheaper so seems a better bet
given both launched around now.
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