Coming soon: A new, open laptop from the creator of Chumby

December 18, 2012

Open source software has become an increasingly widespread part of the computing world thanks to the ever-growing popularity of Linux, Firefox, LibreOffice, and other prominent examples. Fully open hardware, however, is still much less common. Just a few weeks ago we saw the emergence of the Raspberry Pi-style A13-OLinuXino, but over the weekend another interesting contender came to light: a new, open laptop from the creator of the Chumby Internet device. “We are building an open laptop, with some wacky features in it for hackers like me,” wrote renowned Xbox hacker and Chumby creator Andrew “Bunnie” Huang in a blog post on Sunday. “The hardware and its sub-components are picked so as to make this the most practically open hardware laptop I could create using state of the art technology,” Huang added. “You can download, without NDA, the datasheets for all the components, and key peripheral options are available so it’s possible to build a complete firmware from source with no opaque blobs.” To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2020968/coming-soon-a-new-open-laptop-from-the-creator-of-chumby.html