On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Paul Boddie paul@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