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by stinos 4544 days ago
Couple of things I wonder:

- SdCard + full-blown OS = SdCard dies after a while? Or more serious problems like the rPi simply yielding it empty? Could another type of storage be used to boot and run from?

- more information on the OS? What's it based on? Open source so we can fiddle with it?

- what processor is that exactly? Likely the manufacturer provides an OS + libs for it as well (like Ti does for their OMAP), probably the board can be booted with that as well?

- will the schematics be open-sourced?

- debugging capabilities of running programs?

btw quite some comments starting with "I wonder" here. Authors should provide more information probably..

2 comments

Howdy, project creator here.

The OS is based on the Yocto Project, so it's a distro we're putting together ourselves. It's still under heavy development, but the goal is to have something minimal that we can throw all our support under without having to rely as much on other distros that already have tons of other boards/projects to worry about.

We haven't committed to open-sourcing the hardware yet, but all the software will be FOSS. The stuff we have so far is on github, and feedback would be great.

The OS looks like it's just a linux distro, should be fiddleable (though not sure how easy). The rest I have no idea on yet.

http://alphalem.com/pages/alphalem-os