At last! The crowdfund, i‘ve been waiting for my next laptop. I want to buy all, if not, most of my future devices from this company/brand/standard. There goodies are going to be #earth and #freesoftware friendly, made by an #indie . With #ethical design at its heart. #EOMA68 is here: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop

Whitepaper: with story examples to help illustrate what this means: http://rhombus-tech.net/whitepapers/ecocomputing_07sep2015/

#ilovemyeoma #eomaidea an #eomadevice Had some ideas for devices and added them to the idea page. i like the #projector one and the ravox - #rave boom box- too :) http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/ http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/ravox/ or what about a FOX, a file server box for non-raid file storage or a MOX for a media centre or a camera or a guitar effects box arr heck if i list any more ideas this will become a great big list, just have a look at the wiki page ;)

Tons of info buried on the website: http://rhombus-tech.net

Yea the website isn’t super sparkly, they work as hard as they can and put most of there efforts into the product. if you can help with managing the website, smarting it up,etc then feel free to join the mailing list and get an account on the wiki :) . so don't be dishearten and think failed or struggling project, cus your wrong hes been at it working towards this point for ages. Laying the ground work, developing a standard that is to last for around the next 10years. So its taken his time in getting it right initially but after this crowdfund things can ramp up and speed up :D ill looking forward to the quad core 2x faster new future brain/cpu card and i look forward to getting the tablet, heck even games console too heh :)

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Warning: Allwinner kernels have a backdoor!

If you're running an Allwinner SoC based computer (Cubieboard, Cubietruck, OrangePi, BananaPi or OlinuXino for example) you may gain root access easily with a simple echo command. Try the following command to check if you become root:
echo "rootmydevice" > /proc/sunxi_debug/sunxi_debug
You can check with the "id" command if you're root after running the command above. If so, you should switch to another kernel that doesn't have that backdoor.

For server systems you may use the mainline linux kernel if the Allwinner SoC on your computer is well enough supported. The Cubietruck will run fine with a mainline kernel and mainline U-boot when you're using it as a headless server. I tried to gain root access with the command above on a self-built mainline kernel and it doesn't work since /proc/sunxi_debug doesn't exist. You're probably safe when using the mainline kernel.

Resources:

• Twitter post showing the backdoor source code: https://mobile.twitter.com/DaveManouchehri/status/729453383799738369
• GitHub search result for "rootmydevice": https://github.com/search?q=rootmydevice&type=Code&utf8=✓
• Blog post saying linux-sunxi kernels are safe, too: https://olimex.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/how-to-root-any-allwinner-device-running-android-and-most-of-the-chinese-pi-clones-which-bet-on-allwinner-android-linux-kernel/

#Allwinner #SoC #Cubieboard #Cubietruck #OrangePi #OlinuXino #BananaPi

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