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Linux PC Maker System76 Plans To Design And Manufacture Its Own Hardware (liliputing.com)
An anonymous reader quotes Liliputing:
System76 is one of only a handful of PC vendors that exclusively sells computers with Linux-based software. Up until now, that's meant the company has chosen hardware that it could guarantee would work well with custom firmware and the Ubuntu Linux operating system... Starting in 2018 though, you may be able to buy a System76 computer that was designed and built in-house... CAD files for System76 computers will be open source, allowing anyone with the appropriate skills and equipment to build or modify their own cases based on the company's designs.
"We're prototyping with acrylic and moving to metal soon," the company says in a blog post, adding "Our first in-house designed and manufactured desktops will ship next year. Laptops are more complex and will follow much later."
"We're prototyping with acrylic and moving to metal soon," the company says in a blog post, adding "Our first in-house designed and manufactured desktops will ship next year. Laptops are more complex and will follow much later."
I call your bet. $1000 USD they are still around in six months. Reply with a registered account if you're interested and I'll log in and pm you with details.
Don't hold your breath, why? Designing hardware is hard? Costs? Knowhow? Documentation on the chipsets?
None of this is hard, or an unknown, just hire the right people and contractors (yes, I do this stuff for a living). But I'm curious as to what you were thinking the barrier is...
Raspberry Pi to the rescue!
I wish it were sarcasm, but who can predict the future at this point.
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