[PureOS] Let's stablize PureoS Green

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Omar (2019-03-22 01:06:03)
> 
> On 3/21/19 1:41 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Quoting Omar (2019-03-21 18:12:23)
> >> On 3/21/19 11:01 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> >>> Conceptually we offer one PureOS, but technically one of more 
> >>> flavors. We promote PureOS as a single thing towards our users, 
> >>> but it is possible for them to know the flavor (needed e.g. for 
> >>> bug tracking).
> >>>
> >>> Currently we have 2 flavors, one for laptops and one for phones 
> >>> (ignoring additional draft/development flavors not promoted to 
> >>> users).
> >> Let me throw another wrench into the gears. We have servers on the 
> >> horizon. I would say priority has risen to roll these out in less 
> >> than 6 months but we have something in the works now to sell. How 
> >> does this affect things?
> > Quite interesting! What more specifically do we have in works now?
> >
> > Possibly we can simply have servers use same flavor as laptops or 
> > phones - depending on both which hardware and which software needs 
> > we are talking about.
> >
> > If e.g. we want to offer services with AI logic relying on GPU 
> > processing running on hardware similar to the phones, then it gets 
> > challenging to stabilize.
> >
> > If we "just" want to offer Librem One services in a box, then it 
> > _may_ gets challenging to stabilize, if it includes parts like Riot 
> > Web.
> This is on the roadmap. A 'Librem Box' with similar specs to our 
> laptop but probably 8th gen cpu. See here and issue #1: 
> https://source.puri.sm/Products/Librem_Hardware/librembox. With higher 
> MOQs required, the rack server is taking precedence. I think the easy 
> part for the Librem Box is the hardware. I'll leave the hard part to 
> you guys ;)  
>   <https://source.puri.sm/Products/Librem_Hardware/librembox>
> > Please tell more - I have looked forward to this since I began 
> > working for Purism ~20 moons ago.
> Great! For now, looking at using a 1U rackmount Xeon-D motherboard 
> with Coreboot and a Librem Key thrown into the mix. Any suggestions or 
> ideas you would like to see, please throw them my way! More to come...

>From a technical general software standpoint, server hardware close to 
our existing laptops can use exact same flavor as for the laptops (just 
using a different install profile than "GNOME desktop").

I envision no major PureOS cost (time, attention, infrastructure) in 
offering to ship such servers with FreedomBox preinstalled.

If we choose to stabilize the flavor we now use for laptops, then we can 
still offer a FreedomBox install: It is already available in PureOS.

Adapting FreedomBox to include more/other services more closely matching 
our Librem One offering, then that will need time and resources.

Adapting user interface of FreedomBox to more closely align with our 
design principles should be possible, but I expect that to require 
resources as well - I am happy to look into that closer with the desing 
team as needed.

I don't have further ideas than already mentioned in your referenced 
issue, but please keep me in the loop!

If/when we open up to also explore smaller fanless server options, I 
have more ideas, as that has been my main focus the past ~15 years.


 - Jonas

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