If we want a reference device, it needs to be as boring as possible. Let's not repeat the XO situation.<div><br></div><div>The issue with XOs now seems to be that they are all special snowflakes with their special kernel versions. This is my understanding of why we can't update them to the new versions of upstream software.</div><div><br></div><div>Devices with mainline kernel are very good. I'm sure everybody is familiar with this experience; having a random old laptop (XP era, older maybe) that can run all the latest distributions, Supporting my software on that laptop is not hard - it is the same as the Fedora on every other laptop.</div><div><br></div><div>If we choose something with a special snowflake kernel, the support burden falls on us to keep the kernel up to date so that we can run new Systemd versions for the new Fedora versions.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Sam</div><div><br></div><div>On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 10:40 PM, Dave Crossland <dave@lab6.com> wrote:<br>
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> soliciting a small donation of hardware from Google as a reference platform.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Who do we know at google who could help with that? </p>
<p dir="ltr">Despite google fonts being a client, I don't know anyone there who could help with this :(</p>
<p dir="ltr">In any case, which laptop they might give us may not be the best to recommend. </p>
<p dir="ltr">There are 2 obvious candidates to me, the new "olpc laptop" available from olpc inc to USA resident individuals for us$200 plus us$100 shipping from china, with other countries shipping fees varying; and the One Education "Infinity" which is us$350 plus shipping from Taiwan/ Australia.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The olpc unit ships with sugar and its cheaper so seems a better bet given both launched around now. </p>
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