[Freedombox-discuss] Debian FreedomBox = Existing Debian packages on plug hardware

Melvin Carvalho melvincarvalho at gmail.com
Tue Mar 1 13:03:56 UTC 2011


On 1 March 2011 13:53, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 01:16:41PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 11:49:38AM +0000, Matt Willsher wrote:
>>>
>>> On 1 March 2011 08:05, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
>>> > Speaking about embedded targets, what's the idea about Android >
>>> > smartphones? Dalvik, native applications, preferably? Some ssh and > apt-get
>>> > would be sure nice.
>>>
>>> The target for the Freedom Box is a plug device. These have 800Mhz/1.2Ghz
>>> ARM processors and 512MB of RAM and at least 512MB
>>
>> Yes, you're describing a low-end Android phone here.
>
> No, plug devices are not phones.
>
>
>>> storage. While I'm sure freedom could be achieved with an embedded device
>>> and for some use cases would be a preferable platform that isn't one the
>>> stated goals of this project.
>>
>> The only problem I see is Android specifics, which won't play nice with
>> the Debian toolchain.
>
> If I am not mistaken, the topic of this mailinglist is the _Debian_
> FreedomBox project.  Not the Google FreedomBox project or whatever else.
>
> Hardware is Plug devices and software is existing packaged Debian!
>
> I encourage anyone to work on whatever hardware and software that fancy
> their interest - but please treat such as separate from this project.
>
> I do not mean to say that you cannot call your project "Freedom Box" (but
> possibly Eben has an opinion on your using that term he coined), just that I
> strongly fear that discussing all sorts of freedom-related projects together
> here on a single mailinglist does more harm than good.

I think Eben did mention phones at one point, but the concern was that
it could be stolen.

>
>
>  - Jonas
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