[Hamara-devel] Raspberry Pi Zero Costs 5$
Jonas Smedegaard
dr at jones.dk
Fri Nov 27 10:52:06 GMT 2015
Quoting Vikas Tara (2015-11-27 11:24:13)
> On 26/11/15 22:59, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> Closest thing [to the Olimex OSHW laptop] available today is, I
>> believe, the ASUS ChromeBook C201. It uses ARMv7-based Rockchip SoC,
>> and can be re-flashed with a free bootloader.
>>
>> I bought one recently and intend for it to be my next laptop - have
>> not yet had time to get it working with Debian, but will likely bring
>> it with me on the trip and try get it working as a concrete task of
>> using my Boxer tool to streamline a Debian Blend :-)
> That's potentially something for our store too, depends if we can find
> them OS free though.
Right. My point is that the C201 is hardware available in stores *now*
and therefore _only_ needs Free OS, whereas the Olimex laptop need
_both_ working hardware _and_ Free OS.
I bought the C201 because others reported¹ success installing Debian on
it. I want to streamline that by use of Boxer.
- Jonas
¹ https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Asus/C201
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