--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 2:07 AM, chadvellacott@sasktel.net wrote:
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?
i'd need to do it. times a thousand. which is why i'm not hugely keen on the idea.
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.
that would be great
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.
one option is to get a very small card (512mb, 1gb) and put a "loader" OS on that. if they're $0.25 or $0.50 in qty 1000 then that's worth considering. instead of $4 for an 8GB card. say.
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?
exactly.
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?
honestly as this is early-phase anyone should expect to have things that they'll need to deal with... *but* for those people not able to cope i expect *you guys* (those with technical knowledge) to help them out.
(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.)
yay. thank you.
and/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)?
if it's designed properly, none.
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",
not whitelisted: hard-coded.
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.
bittorrent would automatically do that. command-line version is btdownloadheadless.
very tired. stopping here. sorry. please do carry on the conversation. i'll pick it up later.
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