On 11/01/17 21:11, Allan Mwenda wrote:
A proper clone [of an EOMA68 card] to me would
- Be up to standard hardware wise
Looks good
- Run the same software as the Libre Tea/Numero Uno variants (or a
perhaps a Chinese distro like Deep in) but hopefully not some pirated windows IoT
My impression is that EOMA68 is Libre Hardware. Last I checked, one of the tenets of Libre Hardware is that the hardware runs anything the owner of the HW feels like coercing into running on the device.
For 2. I think it should be clear from you these things run gnu/linux in the documentation.
A suggestion might work, but there are other things one might conceivably run that are also Libre Software without being GNU/Linux. BSD comes to mind, but AFAICT, there is nothing stopping someone from producing a purpose built embedded system for a card, or even a card that doesn't make sense to put in half the EOMA68 housings because of the way that embedded system works, as long as it provides the proper signals on the proper pins.
EOMA50 would be better for it, but something like a digital audio player might like an OS tailored to understand its buttons, and the card with that OS installed on it might be a bit screwy to use for a laptop (or phone). Nevertheless, IIUC, as long as nothing will blow up, and you get some semblance of usable output, it's still OK by the standard.
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