On 05/12/13 11:44, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
On Thursday, December 5, 2013 01:17:50 Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross wrote:
Hi. Deciding weather to put a order in for a a20+devboard or too wait.
Ah, waiting. There will always be something better 6 months away. That’s just how it is.
One small problem with waiting is that if current products don’t sell, there will be no future products. Don’t wait yourself out of a future.
I know and don't want to contubut to that.
I prefer the specs of the upcoming cpu cards. I need all the ram I can get
Can you offer firmer guidelines? (I’d love an 8GB system, but .. yeah, probably not happening ;)
2gb is better than 1 and is the same as my netbook. With my web browsing habits I have a problem of hitting 2*% swap and my system becomes a craw. My swap is also encrypted to protect my encrypted home key.
We’ve already been running Plasma Desktop with full compositing on the 1GB A20 boards and it works fine, so while more RAM would be nice, it’s not a requirement for running even a full feature desktop env.
preferably but I also would like 3D/GPU for gnome-shell providing
Out of curiosity: how well does GNOME Shell run on openGL ES (1.1 or 2.0)? I know it has support for OpenGL ES via Clutter, but I have yet to see any successful bring-ups of it on ARM hardware (which may mean I just missed them). I do know that LLVM was broken this year on ARM and nobody seemed keen to fix it, which may be problematic.
Don't know.
there's free drivers and firmware other wise I'd compromise for the most free cpu card.
It is unlikely for the foreseeable future that there will be a Free openGL stack for any competent mobile GPUs. This is one of those situations where a little pragmatism will get us further than puritanism: if we shun systems because they don’t have a Free openGL stack, even though the rest of the software is Free, we will continue to be ignored by the companies that make these systems. The server world was able to resolve these exact same kinds of issues through pragmatic work-with-you-towards-freedom approaches.
I know but I was thinking if the next one is the iMX6 with better(?) working graphics then I might well wait for that.
So rough err ETA of the up coming cpu cards and I assume that very nice devboard from make-play-live will be possible to get without the a20 card in 2014?
Yes, we will eventually be offering the feature board separately; right now it doesn’t make any sense to do so, since ~nobody has an EOMA68 CPU card, without which the Improv’s feature card isn’t useful ;)
That said, it’s a $75 decision, not a $500 one. You can get additional CPU cards when they come out and get stuck in right away with the A20 until then.
yes but still. I guess I could sell it and get a new one when it comes out. So I guess I just get on with ordering one.