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I also added myself to the list of preorders. I would do hardware
related stuff, u-boot hacking and I'd really like porting Archlinux ;)

Julius


On 22.02.2017 18:28, Michael Howard wrote:
> On 22/02/2017 14:11, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>> ---
>> crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 1:33 PM, Michael Howard
>> <mike at dewberryfields.co.uk> wrote:
>>> On 21/02/2017 23:19, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 9:00 PM, Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.org.uk>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On Tuesday 21. February 2017 21.16.54 Eric Duhamel wrote:
>>>>>> On February 21, 2017 3:52:12 AM PST, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
>>>>> <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
>>>>>>> btw i didn't hear from anyone about the offer to send out
>>>>>>> pre-production cards.
>>>>>> I'm tempted but I have nothing to bring to the Linux effort; zero
>>>>>> experience hacking or installing the kernel and not much time to
>>>>>> learn.
>>>>> I'm probably not the kind of person to bring much to the table,
>>>>> either,
>>>>> but
>>>>> what kind of equipment would one need to actually attempt anything
>>>>> with
>>>>> such a
>>>>> card at this point?
>>>>    a standard 12v dc power supply with a 5.5mm pin-positive jack,
>>>> usb-otg and micro hdmi cables, and a vga monitor.
>>>>
>>>>    the main thing i need from people before i send them $300 to $350
>>>> worth of equipment is a 100% committment that they'll be doing active
>>>> development of some kind which helps the other backers directly or
>>>> indirectly, or helps further the goals of the eoma68 project.
>>>>
>>>>    u-boot development, kernel development, os preparation, packaging,
>>>> upstreaming - anything like that.
>>>>
>>>> l.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I'd be happy to put work into os prep, packaging (desktop
>>> environment - I
>>> package up Trininty for my ARM devices here) and anything else that
>>> might be
>>> helpful. I can't add my name to the list, I'm not registered.
>> added.  i *really* like trinity desktop as it's amazingly lightweight
>> and highly functional.  i may actually put it as the default instead
>> of xfce.
>>
>>   i have it installed and tested on one of the microsd cards, it works
>> really well: if you could test it out to make sure it's functional
>> that would be _really_ handy.
>>
>>   btw if you've not got a server where you can upload packages as a
>> repo i'm sure one can be found somewhere.
>>
>>
> I have server capability to host packages.
>
> I'm a big fan of trinity too, behaves really well on the ARM devices
> I've used.
>