Post by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton---
crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
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Post by Luke Kenneth Casson Leightonthere's no NAND any more so micro-sd card it is. i asked for some
help from people about how and what to ship... no response. 2,500
people and nobody made any off-the-wall suggestions: i must have asked
in an unclear way. (p.s. thank you to the person who suggested places
to look for low-cost micro-sd cards).
(for reference, I noticed that this topic was discussed somewhat with the
subject-line "[Arm-netbook] Arm Netbook, Saw the update,", until 2017.6.26.)
here is a quote from
https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/274-eoma68-a20-cards-arrived
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Post by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton1,000 microSD cards would need to be bought, prepared and tested. Some of the OS
images are too large to fit onto a 4 GB Card: that means 8 or 16 GB is needed. 8
GB and 16 GB microSD cards are actually quite expensive, ~.
Any estimate of how much cost it'd add, per unit, to buy big-enough
microSD-cards for the bigger distributions pledged for, and prepare and test the
cards? Personally, I'm definitely fine with paying more for this.
How about total cost for that? Depending on the amount, one or more persons
might wish to make a donation to cover, or help cover, this cost for everyone.
Post by Luke Kenneth Casson LeightonSo I am considering instead to simply provide download scripts for people,
Upon me receiving an "EOMA68-A20" (yeah, yeah, i still need to decide which
colour or such of the "Libre-Tea" card to order), it might be the only "Linux-GNU"
system I have at the time. (Migrating from "Windows" is taking time, sadly.) As
far as I understand, if I just get download-scripts with it, then I'd need to
either (1) "install" a "Linux-GNU"-distribution onto a computer OTHER than the
EOMA-68 lap-top, or (2) use a "live" version of some "Linux-GNU"-distribution, just
so that I could (3) download the OS for the "EOMA68-A20"-card. And my current
lap-top, seems to not like the libre distributions which I have tried on it (at
least, endless "sleep" with "Trisquel"). Maybe other backers or persons planning
to back this, are likely to have the same problem if merely given download-scripts?
I guess that a different way to put this problem, is-
how "important" is it at this stage of EOMA68, to "include" persons who are not
already running Linux-GNU? (Maybe this question is going to only be true for the
"A20"-cards, because maybe others like "RK3388" shall not have this problem. And
the "A20"-cards might not see many production-runs. But I still plan to back at
least one "A20"-card.)
Post by Luke Kenneth Casson Leightonand/or to offer much smaller 128 MB or 256 MB microSD cards which have an
absolute bare minimum OS on them, with scripts that will download an OS onto
I have tried hard to practice safe "Internet"-use with the systems which I have
and previously had (yes, moving from "Microsoft" to a libre "OS", should be a
quantum leap on that "issue").
How secure would this "bare minimum OS" be, for both down-loading AND
installing onto a microSD-card (supplied by me)?
Ideally, I hope that (1) it does not permit any connections other than
downloading one of several particular "OS"-images, via "URLs" which are
white-listed as part of the "bare minimum OS", and (2) it afterwards checks the
image to see whether the crypto-graphic hash (better than MD5) matches the hash
which the "bare minimum OS" says is valid for that image.
Post by Luke Kenneth Casson Leightontheir own (self-supplied) 4 GB, 8 GB or 16 GB or other sized microSD card. ~
because the unanticipated iterations have eaten into the available budget. ~
~ this is something that needs to be discussed, how people would feel about the
need to save on cost of production vs convenience and expectations. Some people,
for example, may not have a reliable Internet connection or may not be expecting
to connect their EOMA68-A20 Card to the Internet at all,
for my case, I'd plan to (1) configure the "OS" to my satisfaction, and next
(2) download a satisfactory browser and configure that, and ONLY LATER (3) use
"Internet" otherwise.
but like Luke wrote, some persons might plan to not connect at all.
Post by Luke Kenneth Casson Leightonor for whatever reason
may not actually have the means to download a 1.7 GB file off the Internet.
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(I manually added the > and the breaks. Hmm, is that going to work?)
is it feasible to offer several options to backers, like-
(1) scripts to download an offered distribution onto backer's self-supplied
microSD-card (for persons willing and able to do the rest themselves).
(2) low-capacity microSD-card with mini-OS and the same scripts as option #1
(for persons comfortable and willing and able to supply their own
several-GB-microSD-card and at a command-line type "download" and "install").
(3) 4GB-card with one of the smaller distribution(s) which were offered.
(4) 8GB-card with one of the bigger distributions, perhaps for an additional fee.
(5) 16GB-card with one of the bigger distributions, perhaps for an additional fee.
if enough persons choose cheaper options, then that may "subsidize" the cases
of some backers choosing costlier options.
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