[Discuss] Favorite OSHW Linux computers?

Drew Fustini pdp7pdp7 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 5 00:37:22 UTC 2015


Great points by Josh and Andrew B.  This reminded me of an interesting
talk I watched recently about deciding which levels of hardware
abstraction we can trust:

Third Official keynote Matthew Garrett for LCA2014 [linux.conf.au 2014]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PsIkpg7eIE

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Andrew Malcolm Stanley
<a.malcolm.stanley at gmail.com> wrote:
> Drew
>
> I am curious about something.
> I am doing some reading on secure (if such a thing exists) operating system variants like tails right now.
> it appears that there are also vulnerability vectors in hardware, such as the USB attacks that bunny has exposed.
> Is there a variant OSHW computer that is designed specifically to provide maximal HW security when operating with a secure OS??
>
> I ask because a key argument for open source software is the internet security provided by the open nature of the code.
> I am wondering if there is a similiar argument to be made on the hardware side.
> what do you think?
>
> /malcolm
>
> On Feb 4, 2015, at 12:38, Drew Fustini <pdp7pdp7 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There's a *lot* of press right now about a new proprietary single
> board computer.  I thought it might be fun to talk about Open Source
> Hardware alternatives.
>
> Here's my favorite OSHW Linux computers.  What are yours?
>
> MinnowBoard MAX (dual 64-bit Intel Atom):
> http://www.minnowboard.org/meet-minnowboard-max/
>
> Olimex OlinuXino LIME2:
> https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A20/A20-OLinuXIno-LIME2/open-source-hardware
>
> Radxa Rock:
> http://radxa.com/Rock
>
> BeagleBone Black:
> http://beagleboard.org/black
>
>
> cheers,
> drew
> http://keybase.io/pdp7
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