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https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/
It gets the same cpu as the pine64. If you have a pine64 can
it run common programs like firefox, vlc, libre office,
gimp and jitsi?
Is the pine64 as fast
as the orange pi
one?
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https://youtu.be/HUsQaSZ0KhE?t=199
What is the significance of a battery connector?
Does it make it easier to make a battery notebook which you can connect and disconnect a power supply
unit to while notebook is running and charge while running?
Free software is software you can use, share, modify and redistribute. Does the wifi work
on free software?
QuoteROCK64 4GB board designated as LTS
This computer is not?
Does the rock64 have a battery port?
Thanks.
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Are you going to tell all the makers to stop making boards so just one can be sold?
I was talking about how to organize the software development more efficient such that
instead of having a number of partly supported computers, we have one or a few which
are fully supported. I would want it to be able to run on free software which is software you
can use, share, modify and redistribute. Thereby giving people a viable free software
alternative to a raspberry pi.
QuoteAnd there is no best board.
It should be possible to agree on a computer. It should be powerful enough to act as a notebook. I do not think free software people are able to organize such an enterprise. But that is free software people failing.
Quotemost of the boards run very well with Armbian .
I got an orange pi one. I tested armbian stretch on it. Playing hd videos stutters. Browsing internet is close
to not working. On this forum I was told it is due to lack of software support.
Would the orange pi one not have stood stronger against the raspberry pi had the
software about the orange pi one been organized such that
it got full free software support, including if necessary a crowd funding of reverse
engineering some pieces of software?
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Companies like orange pi
develope hardware. Put it on sale and then gamble on that people will
provide the software?
It appears new hardware turns up every year. Do computers like those from orange pi
reach a level of full software support?
Would it not be more efficient if one computer got identified as the best on price
and performance and then software development would get focused on
that computer? Such that one computer would become the computer to buy. Isn't
that what raspberry pi did?
To me it appears that all these armbian computers results in divided efforts. And
no armbian computer reaches great software support?
Of course even if it got agreed upon which computer to focus on regarding providing
software, after some time another computer should be agreed on.
I notice a couple of inefficient circumstances about soc computers looking like
the raspberry pi. Unlike atx their ports are not located at the same spots.
Unlike x86 one image is not working on all of them.
Isn't libre computer introducing standard arm images
like standard isos for x86?
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They developed support for processing certain ...
It it good to know who is trying to provide free software for this hardware.
But my question about bootlin was more the lines of, can you tell if enough
money was paid to bootlin, then bootlin has the skills to deliver
free software for every device on the soc computer?
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Is a h5 cpu as fast as a h6?
Is a h6 computer fast enough to act as a notebook?
Thank you.
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In outline the
Pine H64 Model B
is the same as an
orange pi one plus?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bootlin/allwinner-vpu-support-in-the-official-linux-kernel
Would bootlin be able to reverse engineer the vpu?
The gpu?
Free software is software you may use, share, modify and redistribute.
Does it support hardware accelerated encryption run on free software?
What devices on the computer require non free software?
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They appear to be comparable to orange pi computers. They do provide up to 2gb ram and support
emmc. Do you have comments about the computers or testet one
of them?
Thank you.
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It says
QuoteDebian based distribution specialized for ARM developing boards. Compiled from scratch
Is it a free software cf free software foundation debian system armbian makes use of? Then parts of non free software gets added
before compilation?
Maybe the only pieces of non free software which gets added are iozone3 armbian-firmware?
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orange pi one
xenial
stretch
armbian-config desktop
On xenial playing mp4 and mp3 files on mpv media player does not stutter. Also not on vlc. On stretch mp4 and mp3 files stutter on mpv media
player and vlc player.
Is that a general error? Thank you.
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Thank you. I understood the stretch version has no graphic user interface when you start the computer, but it has?
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Armbian Stretch
Is there an instruction on getting a graphical user interface on the
orange pi one?
Thanks.
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On Armbian Xenial I ran
sudo apt purge iozone3 armbian-firmware
After restarting I opened several programs. I cannot say the computer was slower. If above command
removes all non free software cf. free software foundation then the computer runs good on
free software.
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Assuming it will take redesigning of the mainboard, the modifications are not technically
impossible, not exponentially more expensive.
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In general I want to know, how many arm mainboards is it required to order and the manufacturer
starts negotiating about specifications you want to get modified?
I do not say at the same price. If I tell the manufacturer of the orange pi one, I want the arm mainboard
but it must have 4gb ram and usb mini b connectors at what volume number does the
manufacturer start listening? 50000 mainboards?
Thank you.
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elaborate more, please
I take interest in if a piece of software is free software cf free software foundation. You say:
Quoteyou can have a smooth experience with video up to 1080p@30 in Chromium, with RK3288 boards and Odroid XU4. Armbian kernels already support it
What I want to know is, the piece of armbian kernel software which enables rk3288 to display 1080p
video, is it free software?
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6 hours ago, JMCC said:
RK3288 boards and Odroid XU4. Armbian kernels already support
The kernel software is free software?
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Not on any ARM board
The rock64 and rockpro64 can have 4gb ram. Arm mainboards which have 4gb ram I would expect to be able to display youtube
videos.
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I have tested the orange pi one xenial. When I say test it is not benchmark tests. I do not know what the numbers say anyway. I open several common
programs and watch what htop says. If I run an mp4 file on a media player, libre office and file manager it runs well and
htop says about 300mb.
It is a 10usd computer and I do not expect it to equal a x86 desktop.
If I open firefox, firefox crashes before starting. Because of not enough ram?
If I open chromium or midori ram usage goes to 100%. Cpu does not. You cannot really browse sites very well.
Youtube videos is the same. Is it becuase 512mb ram is not enough?
On my gnulinux x86 notebook firefox commonly uses several hundred mb.
Is there a browser I can install which will make it possible to play a youtube video?
Thank you.
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orange pi one
synaptic package manager
I installed the synaptic package manager on Armbian Xenial. If I input something to search
for one core goes 100%. The search is so slow I have not let it finish it. Is it a bug? My
raspberry pi 0 is able to do a search fast. Thank you.
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orange pi one
armbian xenial
When I obtained the orange pi one I installed armbian xenial. I booted the orange pi one. During boot I
cannot recall if a red light flashed next to a steady green flash.
The desktop worked.
The orange pi one was connected to a hdmi display. Resolution 1280 x 720. I wanted to use
a 1024 x 768 vga display by hdmi vga converter. The desktop would keep the
1280 x 720 resolution when displaying the desktop. I tried different things in order to get
a 1024 x768 resolution. Did not work. One configuration resulted in trashing the
power supply. I connected another power supply. The power supply got hot. Desktop
did not start. I do not know if the orange pi one got damaged.
I then reinstalled armbian xenial on the sd card. Started the orange pi one. Desktop worked.
Booting a red light flashed next to a steady green light. Starting the orange pi one
again and there is a green steady light.
At first booting a red light is supposed to flash? Thank you.
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you don't tell your use case.
you can buy a 7 inch display notebook.
There is also a 10 inch display version.
I am trying to determine which mainboard I would have the notebook to have. If main priorities are free software
cf free software foundation's requirements and performance adequate for common debian utilization. To me it
is at the same time having a running browser. 5 open tabs. One showing a youtube video. File manager
running. Email client running. Running libre office or a media player or photo editor.
It seems rk cpus are the ones to select among. If choosing between the rk3288 and rk3328 the
rk3328 is the better choice?
Can you answer if the free vpu software will work on the rock64 rk3328?
the best choice for a notebook?
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If running debian is the rk3288 or rk3328 fastest? Thanks.
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doesn't yet appear to have hardware acceleration for its Mali GPU, in
Has the rk3328 and rock64 got free vpu software now cf tkaiser's link?
What about the rk3399 and rk3288?
orange pi one armbian install libre linux kernel?
in Allwinner sunxi
Posted
http://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/linux-libre/
I expect this is the software.
Free software is software you may use, share, modify and redistribute. To my knowledge
orange pi one has an armv7 cpu. And the
gpu is the same as on a pinephone. On this forum I was told command
apt purge iozone3 armbian-firmware
might turn armbian into a free software system. There is an
armv7 libre linux kernel, which to some extend supports mali
gpus. I want to test the libre linux kernel on an orange pi
one computer, to get to know how well a Mali 400 MP2 runs on
free software. Maybe it can give a streak of how well the pinephone's
gpu will run on free software? How do you test a libre linux kernel
on an orange pi one? Do you purge the linux kernel from
armbian and then install libre linux kernel?
Thanks.