[kwlug-disc] Open source laptop hardware

[Doug Moen]

It's like you wanna build your own open/libre laptop from scratch, but these guys did the hardware design and will sell you a kit with a bag full of parts. Everyday use *requires* opening it up with a screwdriver and fiddling with the hardware periodically. Nice.

I still have the first laptop I bought in the 1990s (1.25 inches thick). This is faster, better, cheaper (except the battery controller). A real technical advance.

Sounds like Debian is too slow and bloated for this hardware. I bet that Plan 9 would really fly on it. Plan 9 is from the right era and there's been no large scale effort to make it a thousand times slower and require a thousand times as much memory, as has happened with Linux distros.

Doug.

On Mon, Jan 31, 2022, at 8:32 AM, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
> Ars Technica has a writeup on an open-source hardware laptop.  It's not pretty but....
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> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/review-mnt-reform-laptop-has-fully-open-hardware-and-software-for-better-or-worse/
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