[Freedombox-discuss] [Melvin Carvalho] Re: FreedomBox in the Chronicle of Higher Education

[Jim Tarvid]

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Weaver <weaver at riseup.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 15:26:59 +0100
> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
> > <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
> >
> > > i've been on the receiving end of quotes for various systems for the
> > > past 2 years.  the AML-8726-M is the best price-performance system
> > > on the market... that's _actually_ possible to get hold of.  there
> > > is
> >
> >  apologies: qualification - best price-performance *at the moment*.
> > the sheer number of ARM Cortex A8 and A9 systems coming out the
> > woodwork is so high, relatively speaking, that a better
> > price-performance system could come along at any time.  i've been
> > working on a plan to deal with that rapid pace of change:
> >
> http://elinux.org/Embedded_Open_Modular_Architecture/PCMCIA/MiniEngineeringBoard
>
> Could this be considered another candidate?
>
> http://efytimes.com/e1/70565/fullnews.htm
>
> Regards,
>
> Weaver.
>
> --
> "In a world without walls and fences,
> what need have we for Windows or Gates?"
> -Anon.
>
>  Certainly, piggybacking on the numbers of the Aakash or even rooted
devices from the likes of Amazon or Barnes and Noble will get us closer to
the price performance point we are after and faster.

I may not be "typical" but I have the urge for multiple devices: one that
> fits in my pocket, another that meets my development needs and another that
> can host multiple servers on the Internet. The pocket device in the near
> term will run Android, the desktop will run VMs (VirtualBox since many of my
> targets are Windows and Mac users) and the server box will needs lots of
> cores, RAM and hard disk space.
>

None of these fits in a "plug" however sexy they may be. We could start out
with a VM that everyone could use and by proximity, enable them to get close
to the software technology.

Jim
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