Gregory's ServerWe will be moving Virgo laptop PCB design to this public, GPLv3 licensed project: https://github.com/system76/virgo/. This will be the most open, modern x86 motherboard design I know of.
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@gameplayer @soller is there consumer RISC-V anything shipping right now? It's a nice future and I'm also in line with you :) @ahoyboyhoy @soller Atm there are RISC-V 64-bit motherboards, nyot sure if they're being sold in the EU yet  @gameplayer @soller attn, @mntmn , weren't you working on a RISC-V laptop at one point? @soller out of curiosity, besides it being very cool, what good is this going to do to regular consumers like myself? Do we expect people to check and improve the design, check on hidden management engines, not sure to be honest?  @tuxlife open source bios + hot swappable mechanical keys + trackpoint + right-to-repair ('right' is completely misleading in this case, lol) is the hardware side. Pop_OS! or CosmicOS is not for everyone but at least it offers upgradeability, backup solutions and longevity tailored for hardware and baked into OS without any bs 3rd party tools which is the industry standard in Windows. And it'll work equally good with any Linux distro, but then you configure all by yourself manually. @Nuuskis Open Source BIOS is great, but falls under the software section I would say π€ Love and use Pop!_OS on many of my devices, which are primarily ThinkPads to be fair. Donβt think System76 actually ships to The Netherlands and if they do, shipping cost are going to substantial, hoping they open a EU distribution facility to mitigate this, would love to order one off their keyboards to start with. @tuxlife I didn't mention the superior software availability since flatpaks aren't unique as the things I mentioned. I also live in Europe and I tried to force myself for 1,5 years into US layout but 1-row enter/return key was still a constant pain. But I don't care, I'll get Virgo smuggled for me as soon as I know someone who physically visits US. @Nuuskis itβs funny, I order/buy all my laptops/keyboards in US layout because I prefer the tilde and | symbols in specific places, Dutch keyboards and their layout I canβt get used to. @soller@fosstodon.org Ok, this is really exciting!!  |
@soller This is too cool.