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EOMA-68 laptop Keyboard support improvement pushed
by Albert ARIBAUD 03 Aug '16

03 Aug '16

Hi all, I have gone ahead and pushed my latest round of improvements for keyboard support in the EOMA-68 laptop EC firmware. The new feature is support for modifiers (ctrl, shift, alt, GUI). Previously, these were sent as key codes, now they are sent within the modifier. For those to whom this is pure gibberish, it basically means that now "shift-a" *will* show as "A" (unless you've hit the Caps Lock key, of course, in which case "shift-A" will show as "a"), Alt-tab *will* cycle through your apps "Ctrl-C" *will* break that running process in your console, etc. Basically, the keyboard is now as functional as any other USB keyboard (except for two keys on the AZERTY matrix which seem to differ wrt the QWERTY matrix; that's a trivial issue and precisely the kind of thing I've initially set out to find and fix). I've also made some less visible changes, mainly to optimize GPIO access (for which there is still some improvement simmering gently here). Amicalement, -- Albert.

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Another mention on the Puppy Forum.
by Christopher Havel 03 Aug '16

03 Aug '16

Worth a look -- I don't *think* one needs a login to view the post -- could be wrong tho. If I am, I'll mirror it. Also, I don't think the poster knows about that thread I posted, either. I'll link him to it in a minute. http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=916157#916157

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Article in SoylentNews
by Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo 03 Aug '16

03 Aug '16

Hi, After a failed attempt, I tried again and it's just been published now: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/08/01/083258 (They removed the direct link to the crowd-funding campaign, but it's mentioned prominently and linked from the articles). I will try to reply to comments as best as I can. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo(a)gmail.com>

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EOMA68 help vote this up (3d printing article)
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 02 Aug '16

02 Aug '16

http://support.all3dp.com/forums/282794-general/suggestions/15482961-do-an-… could people please help vote this up and put in some comments, they'll be able to assess it, it also helps that there's an article previously published. l. --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68

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gcompris
by Wolfgang Romey (hier) 02 Aug '16

02 Aug '16

Great, that you tried ist and published an update, which I will publish on diaspora*, ... One question: In the video you said, that there is no sound. Is it right, that the CM108AH USB Audio with stereo headphone socket is part of the laptop-hardware and not of the eoma68? Wofgang -- Wolfgang Romey Krokusstraße 37 47249 Duisburg geraspora: https://pod.geraspora.de/people/9002a1416a4e4a9d loadaverage: https://loadaverage.org/hier tox: wolfgang_romey(a)toxme.se Bitte Anhänge nur in freien Formaten. Die Nachricht ist signiert, der öffentliche Schlüssel wird auf Anfrage zugeleitet.

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developer advantages of EOMA68
by Nick Hardiman 02 Aug '16

02 Aug '16

Why are EOMA68 computer cards useful to the current rash of devops guys? When a developer bangs out business-level services, the fine detail of boot loaders, CPU packages, device drivers and power consumption is taken for granted. The dev probably checks the kernel is new, and that’s about it. Or is that unfair? For starters, I’m thinking: You carry your development environment with you. No database sync, no remote cloud access, no leaving a sensitive computer in the organization. It’s not a killer advantage - since BYOD became a thing, this is already happening for a lot of laptop-carrying people. It’s local hardware, not remote virtual machines. It may be a good fit with running containers, which means continuous deployment, configuration management, and all that microservice lifecycle stuff. If you want to get less commercial and more R&D, you could replace Docker with Xen and unikernels. I’m also thinking, basically, any software development that can be done on a Cubietruck, can be done on an EOMA68. Similar specs, similar OS support, and so on. What am I missing?

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Game Console Website
by Alexander .S.T. Ross 02 Aug '16

02 Aug '16

just came across it http://www.ubrew.it

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EOMA68 now runnning sugar os
by Wolfgang Romey 01 Aug '16

01 Aug '16

In the latest update of its crowdfunding campaign one can see, that the sugar os is running on the EOMA68-card. This coold be a great chance to get more (new?) life to sugar. https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/sugar-os-demo As the card is aimed among other aims for using in education, this is very goog news. Wolfgang

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EOMA68 too slow?
by Wolfgang Romey (hier) 01 Aug '16

01 Aug '16

On the fsfe-fe mailing list is happening a discussion, in which people say, the A20 has not enough power for serious working with libreoffice or surfing or looking videos. Is it possible, to produce a video, which shows the speed, with which this is possible? Or are their other ways to prove, that this is wrong. Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Romey Krokusstraße 37 47249 Duisburg geraspora: https://pod.geraspora.de/people/9002a1416a4e4a9d loadaverage: https://loadaverage.org/hier tox: wolfgang_romey(a)toxme.se Bitte Anhänge nur in freien Formaten. Die Nachricht ist signiert, der öffentliche Schlüssel wird auf Anfrage zugeleitet.

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your robotic overlord...
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 01 Aug '16

01 Aug '16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awSovHldr9Y this is great - it's a video done by Aban Tech, the voice is a robot but done quite well, i didn't notice until there were spelling mistakes and pronounciation errors :) --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68

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