On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 4:47 PM, Pičugins Arsenijs crimier@yandex.ru wrote:
I have some EEE PCs (2 working and 2 spares), and I absolutely love them,
an eeepc would be a much better base than a thinkpad as it stays away from the [extremely resource-starved] market of replacing the bios in the libre community, i.e. doesn't gut machines that would otherwise be kept in circulation (and out of landfill) far longer by being in the hands of a responsible libre-software supporter.
you will learn a lot from the task that you envision, arsenijs: if the reverse-engineering of the eeepc is that far along it takes care of many of the tasks on the list and yes, 6 months would not be an unreasonable estimate for the remainder.
please however be under no illusion that, even at the end of all that effort, which if well-documented will be extremely valuable in its own right and on its own merit, you are still presenting people with the task of *hand-disassembling* a pre-existing system, that the number of people who will be interested to do so will be at most 100 in the world, and that bang-per-buck wise the effort spent has an extremely low *actual* environmental benefit compared to designing and building a system that's *actually* intented - from the start - to be eco-conscious.
l.