<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>I ran across this company when I was looking for SBCs that can run Linux</div><div>for my Home Assistant project. I ended up with a Raspberry Pi 3, but was</div><div>impressed with their SBCs.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.pine64.org/">https://www.pine64.org/</a></div><div><br></div><div>The laptop seems to be a natural evolution from there.</div><div><br></div><div>What worries me about these companies is the same thing that plagues</div><div>Orange Pi, Banana Pi, and other more powerful RPi clones: software and</div><div>community. Specifically, they make the operating system work, then do <br></div><div>not put any effort in updating it at all, then it is abandoned after a new <br></div><div>model comes out. Also, the lack of a community hobbles them. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Let us see if the laptop can overcome these problems.<br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 11:01 AM L.D. Paniak <<a href="mailto:ldpaniak@fourpisolutions.com">ldpaniak@fourpisolutions.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Looks like there is a reasonable, inexpensive open-source (friendly)<br>
laptop coming down the pipe soon:<br>
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<a href="https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7093" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7093</a><br>
<br>
Not sure how many binary blobs are required to make it go but my BSD<br>
friends think it is OK.<br>
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