[Discuss] EOMA68 Libre Hardware Standard and Libre Software project, currently crowd-funding (deadline expires 26th aug 2016)

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On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 12:00 AM, Marcin Jakubowski
<marcin at opensourceecology.org> wrote:
> Wow, this looks amazing, and appears to stake steps ahead of the
> groundbreaking Novena.

 it's a completely different target market - bunnie's laptop was
actually just for himself (for various reasons i've discovered but
can't publicise).  so it was designed specifically and exclusively for
engineers... it just happened to have the entire CAD files published.

 this is designed from the ground up to be a bridge between libre
engineers and the average end-user: it's *specifically* targetted at
mass-volume, but it also has to be done in a scaleable and manageable
step-by-step way that does *NOT* require VC funding so that i can
retain 100% control of the EOMA68 standard.

> Great work. Is it that for about $500, one could get
> a PIY kit with computer card?

 yep.

> Would this computer be able to run FreeCAD,
> Kdenlive, and Blender effectively?

kdenlive:  _maybe_.  if kdenlive uses vdpau, vaapi, gstreamer or
ffmpeg then you stand a chance of being able to use the
hardware-accelerated video encode / decode engine.

 blender and freecad: even if you installed the proprietary mali.ko,
that would give you OpenGL ES not OpenGL, and there's nothing you can
do about that (because it's proprietary).

 now, i _am_ constantly on the search for alternative SoCs,
particularly ones that support e.g. etnativ, but it's... really
challenging.  i'm going to have to get more actively involved in
influencing these SoC companies - i'll be going over to visit
allwinner next month.

l.