[Arm-netbook] LWN: Hands on with the pi-top

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.org.uk> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I thought that some of you might be interested in this, at least in the
> context of laptop projects, what other people are doing, and the finished
> products:
>
> http://lwn.net/Articles/667040/

 thanks paul

> I guess the Raspberry Pi aspect of it means that people are willing to throw
> their money at something that doesn't really seem to be a particularly good
> product: tied to the RPi, no speakers or audio outputs (apart from on the RPi
> board itself), the usual proprietary software dependencies and promotional
> activity, reportedly dodgy keyboard...

 it sounds very much like it's "first generation".  that, and they
have gone out early instead of doing a limited run and a slower
ramp-up, put it out there to as many people as wanted it,
problems-and-all, to get more eyes-on for feedback and potential
solutions.

 that sounds pretty much exactly like one of the core guidelines of
successful software libre projects - "release early, release often".
let's see if they follow up with the "release often" bit.


> Also of interest is that their desktop version recently got funded very
> quickly indeed. Again, the same RPi dependencies and constraints apply. I
> guess it shows that there's a market for such stuff,

 very true