[GTALUG] EOMA68

[Giles Orr]

I assume this is what we're talking about:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop

It looks like a good idea and it's relatively inexpensive - essentially a
computer on a card with the form factor of a PCMCIA card (for people who
remember those).  They're currently claiming a ship date of, well,
yesterday (literally).  So we'll know in a few days if they shipped or
not.  I guess the problem is that it's been a very long time since they
took people's money?  The version of Fedora they're claiming to ship on
some of the cards is Fedora 24, which Wikipedia said was released
2016-06-21, and end-of-lifed 2017-08-08.  So anyone who ordered has been
waiting perhaps 2.5 years?  But if this starts ending up in people's hands,
I'll consider ordering one ...  Although that would be a bit silly: for my
purposes a Raspberry Pi is still more practical.

One place where this would be incredibly useful to me: I think it's a bad
idea to cross any international border with important data on your
computer.  (Let's face it: the only law at the border is what the border
guard says it is, and seizing data is becoming more and more common.)  So
being able to pop out the computer card from your laptop shell and slap in
a clean one (for a mere $55) sounds like  great answer to that problem.
Just keep your border-crossing card up-to-date for software, and don't
install anything personal or corporate on it.



On Fri, 2 Aug 2019 at 11:24, Stewart Russell via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> It certainly sounds like it has an image problem:
>
> https://elinux.org/Embedded_Open_Modular_Architecture/EOMA68
>
> They never did ship, did they?
>
>  Stewart
>
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