Re: [Arm-netbook] brief update

2016-09-16 Thread Vincent Legoll
> you do _not_ want to be using swap space on raw nand or even eMMC. > or USB-based external storage media. in fact, you don't want to be > using swap space at all... with the exception possibly of compswap > (the much better version of zram, which linus torvalds refused to > allow the full set o

Re: [Arm-netbook] The sincerest form of flattery

2016-09-16 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello, On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 3:32 AM, Christopher Havel wrote: > I rather suspect that smartphone computing is going to be a major part > of the future -- libre, 'open', or proprietary. I think this campaign agrees with you $BIGTIME: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andromium/the-superboo

Re: [Arm-netbook] EOMA68 Libre laptop PCB2

2016-09-16 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello, On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 4:48 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/laptop_15in/news/EOMA68_Libre_15.6in_Laptop_PCB_2nd_phase_prototyping/ I've been searching on: http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/laptop_15in/pcbs/ (with a slight formattin

Re: [Arm-netbook] EOMA68 Libre laptop PCB2

2016-09-16 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Vincent Legoll wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 4:48 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > wrote: >> http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/laptop_15in/news/EOMA68_Libre_15.6in

Re: [Arm-netbook] EOMA68 Camera

2016-09-16 Thread Alexander .S.T. Ross
Aren’t some of the hardware encoders flexible enough to encode into VP9/8 or heck Theora? wavpack for best free lossless compression and opus for when you want to max storage space. It would be really fantastic if the camera could encode into free formats. Also avoids royalty fees for everybody t

Re: [Arm-netbook] EOMA68 Camera

2016-09-16 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Alexander .S.T. Ross wrote: > Aren’t some of the hardware encoders flexible enough to encode into > VP9/8 or heck Theora? yyep. turns out that google provides VP8 and VP9 hard macros

Re: [Arm-netbook] brief update

2016-09-16 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 9:51 AM, Vincent Legoll wrote: >> you do _not_ want to be using swap space on raw nand or even eMMC. >> or USB-based external storage media. in fact, you don't want to be >> using swap space at

[Arm-netbook] laptop battery

2016-09-16 Thread Muhammed Adel Afzal
I remember reading somewhere that the eoma laptop battery will be different from usual laptop batteries. Magnesium instead of Lithium ... or something like that. And that it has different traits. What kind of battery does the eoma laptop have? What's the right way to take care of it? Is it

Re: [Arm-netbook] The sincerest form of flattery

2016-09-16 Thread Muhammed Adel Afzal
They got 3 million dollars ... wow. - Original Message - From: "Vincent Legoll" To: "Linux on small ARM machines" Sent: Friday, September 16, 2016 5:01:30 AM Subject: Re: [Arm-netbook] The sincerest form of flattery Hello, On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 3:32 AM, Christopher Havel wrote: > I

Re: [Arm-netbook] Future case idea: subnotebook/PDA with QWERTY keyboard

2016-09-16 Thread Joseph Honold
On 09/02/2016 09:33 AM, Joseph Honold wrote: > I've been looking at various LCD options and all of the RGB ones that are > 3.5"-4" have low resolution (320x240, 480x320, and expensive 640x480). This > lead me to look at MIPI DSI displays which are cheaper with higher resolution > but more compli

[Arm-netbook] Code of conduct?

2016-09-16 Thread Sam Pablo Kuper
I am still new to this community, and am more of a lurker than a contributor. Many of the projects I am interested in have a code of conduct of some kind, typically based on the Contributor Covenant[0]. If they are well-written and proportionate, I find them welcoming. And I, correspondingly, welc

Re: [Arm-netbook] Code of conduct?

2016-09-16 Thread mdn
I am just a lurker a seeker of knowledge on this email list and tend to stay out of discussions knowing that I don't have has much knowledge has the people discussing here. But I can't stay an say nothing on this subject I speak for Myself and only Myself and my response is no, I don't want that

[Arm-netbook] managed wifi network and EOMA68-A20 cards

2016-09-16 Thread Nick Hardiman
I need to put a few WIFI access points in a few rooms. One wifi router won’t do the trick - foil-backed insulation in the walls stops signals. If I built a network around EOMA68, is this a reasonable approach? I imagine the simplest way to make one WIFI access point using an EOMA68-A20 card is

Re: [Arm-netbook] Code of conduct?

2016-09-16 Thread Muhammed Adel Afzal
I noticed that you (mdn and Sam) posted conclusions rather than interests (or reasons). Why do you think a code would be bad or good? Adel - Original Message - From: "mdn" To: arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk Sent: Friday, September 16, 2016 4:22:38 PM Subject: Re: [Arm-netbook] Code of

Re: [Arm-netbook] Code of conduct?

2016-09-16 Thread mdn
I have indeed shown my point of view without explaining the exact reasons (I said it caused trouble and I agree that it is a very vague anwser) I redirect you to these links that resumes with better words my point of view. http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6918 and http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2122 Good re

Re: [Arm-netbook] Code of conduct?

2016-09-16 Thread mdn
I have indeed shown my point of view without explaining the exact reasons (I said it caused trouble and I agree that it is a very vague anwser) I redirect you to these links that resumes with better words my point of view. http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6918 and http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2122 Good re

Re: [Arm-netbook] Code of conduct?

2016-09-16 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 9:06 PM, Sam Pablo Kuper wrote: > I am still new to this community, and am more of a lurker than a > contributor. > > Many of the projects I am interested in have a code of conduct of some > kind,

Re: [Arm-netbook] laptop battery

2016-09-16 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Muhammed Adel Afzal wrote: > I remember reading somewhere that the eoma laptop battery will be different > from usual laptop batteries. Magnesium instead of Lithium ... or something >

Re: [Arm-netbook] The sincerest form of flattery

2016-09-16 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Muhammed Adel Afzal wrote: > They got 3 million dollars ... wow. yeah. started by a GOOGLE engineer who has access to GOOGLE engineering mailing lists and lots of friends at GOOGLE the

Re: [Arm-netbook] Future case idea: subnotebook/PDA with QWERTY keyboard

2016-09-16 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 5:30 PM, Joseph Honold wrote: > On 09/02/2016 09:33 AM, Joseph Honold wrote: >> I've been looking at various LCD options and all of the RGB ones that are >> 3.5"-4" have low resolution (320x240,

Re: [Arm-netbook] managed wifi network and EOMA68-A20 cards

2016-09-16 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 10:31 PM, Nick Hardiman wrote: > I need to put a few WIFI access points in a few rooms. One wifi router won’t > do the trick - foil-backed insulation in the walls stops signals. If I built > a n