On 08/31/2017 04:14 AM, Alessandro Selli wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 at 18:25:07 -0400
> "Taiidan@???" <Taiidan@???> wrote:
>
>> Thought I would share this!
>>
>> After what happened with TALOS 1 I can't believe they actually pulled it
>> off this time.
>>
>> This is truly a historic moment for computing freedom lovers - an owner
>> controlled open source ultra high performance workstation/server for
>> only a few thousand dollars.
>>
>> https://secure.raptorcs.com/
>>
>> Note: For the non sysadmin crowd this is what dual socket performance
>> server/workstation hardware costs - it is designed for the power user
>> market - there are already many crappy owner controlled SOC's going for
>> a few hundred, now the performance segment has a device too.
> Good news indeed! The second one this week, after this worthy attempt by
> puri.sm to finally produce a smartphone designed to be 100% evil-software free
> and GNU/Linux compatible (scheduled for release in 2019, though):
>
> https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
>
I doubt it will be owner controlled, as their laptops aren't - they
still haven't even gotten a blobbed version of coreboot working (blobbed
init code + ME enabled as they insisted on a crappy intel soc)
Purism isn't a trustworthy company.