[jimktrains2]

By pretty close you mean no where near a usable system then you'd be correct. If you're not a hardware person, as I'm not, I don't think I could go from blank fpga and parts to a working laptop with a keyboard, trackpoint, and lcd screen in any reasonable amount of time, nor with any certainty that it would work and not be error-prone.

[sklogic]

Order Oberon Station, copy-paste a couple of lines of instructions to flash a bitfile, and enjoy a nearly fully open environment.

A bit more tricky with or1200, but this way you'll get a fully functional Linux workstation.