Thief open-sources Richard Stallman's laptop, passport, visa

@tuxchick I'm quite certain that they don't do UEFI :)

In ref to: http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/33346/

Since reading this article, I've become fascinated with the variety of open-hardware/open-software projects that are out there right now.

The "RMS machine".

The $94 tiny "Ben" computer.

The Elphel open source camera. aka - Google StreetView.

The much discussed Raspberry Pi, of course.

The venerable Chumby Linux alarm clock.

Oh my, that sucks, poor RMS. Ken, I'm addicted to Thinkpads. But I never really looked for an open laptop before. I wonder how these little Lemotes perform?

Tuxchick,

Pretty good I expect if you run emacs, mutt and links.

Low blow I know.

I dunno montezuma, I might want Nethack too.

As long as you can run it in a colour terminal, that's not too bad...

I really wanted mutt to work for me, but I realized that my central nervous system requires a full-featured mail client.

@Penguinist The Rasp-Pi contains closed binary blobs.

~Jeff

montezuma: why would you run mutt and links if you use emacs?

steven: which features is mutt missing?

greetings, eMBee.

eMBee,

Good point. I have failed the Stallman test.

@Jeff91, the binary blob is only for the VideoCore GPU. It isn't mandatory for using the RPi as a thin client. The other blobs aren't closed, and have no restrictions on reverse-engineering.

Mutt is just too hard. I've seen more configuration files for Mutt since the days when I used it, but I could never get it to do everything I wanted. It's just so much easier to use Thunderbird, especially with multiple e-mail accounts -- I had neither the time, the skill or the stomach for doing it all with Mutt and the various helper apps you need to make it all work.

ah, right, i solve the multiple account problem by having them all forward into one, but i can see mutt harder to manage with multiple accounts...

and while we are talking about it. responding to html mail is a bit inconvenient in mutt. i probably need to dig out some helper app for that :-)

greetings, eMBee.

Quoting:The $94 tiny "Ben" computer.

Has anyone tried one of these? They look awfully tempting to me, as in much more so than the cheaper Raspberry Pi. This is a workable platform to build on without adding much of anything.

Since the topic title is Lemote Yeelong I'll admit I've wanted one since they first came out. The price tag imported to the U.S. has stopped me so far.

@caitlin: the Beez wrote up his use experiences; check his blog.

For me, not having a capslock-left-of-A to turn into a control key is a deal--breaker. Non-WordStar typists probably don't care.

I looked into the Ben Nano,... But it is way too under powered, just like the Pandora. In a generation or two, these kind of things will be viable alternatives,... although probably more expensive than the commercial alternative. But for now, having one would be cool, if price were no object... But I have better things to spend the same money on...

Note,... the OpenPandora project here:

http://openpandora.org/