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And Raspberry Pi doesn't have to pay for Broadcomm IP. The worst part of Raspberry is not only uese a lot o blobs, even a blob to boot, even worst is that closed OS for GPU is always on, it has real control (and its backdoors plus bugs) and highest priority, and the user OS you load after it is...

Why? Because there is no other pocket computer like Pyra even after 5 years of development, so even with OMA5 idle bug is so unique and valuable. And look at GPD Win 3: they get away from pocket computer design. There is no real keyboard but an horrible touch surface acting like a keyboard...

I am afraid you are wrong: CPU board sits on main board "vertical" connectors, so all CPU board thickness you can reduce you gain it on top. Mainboard - Pyra Wiki CPU-Board - Pyra Wiki You would be right if secondary board (CPU board) were not directly connected/sat on main board (vertical...

It could be Rockchip RK3399 at 28nm is not an option for Pyra. It is not a SOC designed for mobile/handheld devices. Future Rockchip RK3588, if done at 8nm, could be an option. But for the moment it is too much beautiful :) At 8nm it would be really interesting. Too much beautiful to be real...

As you stated in https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/it-reminds-me-of-the-pandora.99197/post-1681984 OMAP5 board needed expensive 12 layer PCB: It could be possible with other SOC (not so complex like industrial/car oriented OMAP5 used in Pyra, as the other OMAP5 for mobile was not...

It may be next CPU board imply more performance but it may be not the case, nor it is the only nor more important point. Newer SOC may be more efficient (less battery consumption and less heat for same work), be 64-bits, run cooler (and then run at top speed more time until it has to throttle...

Sometimes the best time to begin domination is when that market starts up. For example Microsoft conquered IBM/compatible PC market from beginning (after tricking IBM). If MS had started its OS years after IBM PC market (obviously PC would have used other OS from begining), things could be...

Initially it was a charitable thing, Broadcom gave up that SOC at cost, with no royalty payment. At the same time it seems it was an outdated design ever in that moment (it is supposed it was monetized time ago). On other side I don't know if finally it was real charity or if they wanted to...

Raspberry are really overrated. GPU is really bad. It has been improved on RPI 4 over previous model, but I think it continues well under other GPUs in ARM SOCs. But the worst part of them is that its SOC isn't a normal SOC in the sense of CPU cores plus an assistant/secondary GPU but THE...

I am going to "hate" TI :D Of course I understand TI is more focused on industrial clients and offers long term supply, like NXP does (HP used Samsung SOC on previous calculators and have suffered from short-production life, so finally they have swichted to NXP because this guarantee extended...

It may be good for you, but 5-10 seconds is a lot of waiting time. Sorry, but I have had lots of pocket computers (as I listed on previous message) and ALL of them were on from suspend instantly: nor 1 second lost. A pocket device like this will be used a lot of times, even in same day, and...

I think you are simply wrong and/or you didn't read nor understand my comment: 1/ Board upgrade have been always a promotion by ED for Pyra. It is not I may want other CPU board, it is this is in Pyra DNA: Pyra was designed and promoted with CPU board upgrade as a future upgrade. 2/ Soon? I am...

No, there is no loss: all OMAP5 on ED stock will be used on all actual orders and xxx more. New CPU will be a later upgrade, for later Pyras after all OMAP5 are sold, in double way: for new Pyra orders after that point and for older owners who can upgrade their old Pyra. Really a new CPU board...

I read it, but if it was fake news it is really bad news, because it implies we could have more Pyra CPU boards with bugged low-power mode CPU. I would prefer there were stock only to serve actual orders and a bit more, so this would force a faster change to new, better¹, and non bugged low...

I think both Emacs and vi/Vim are great. Emacs is great for its Lisp-like capabilities (you can do incredible things), and I love vi/Vim for its modal paradigm and low requisites. On other side I consider vi a must: it is a standard command in Unix/Linux, so all of them have that command (some...

Then now the IMPORTANT question is: how much TI OMPA5 do you have on stock (or you can get from other sources than TI, as TI doesn't sell it anymore)? I.e.: How may Pyras with OMPA5 can you supply until you have to switch to other SOC actually on market (like NXP ones with extended support and...

I did: someone said «Seems like an awfully slow cpu! There’s a reason most other brands go with an rk 33xx cpu». And I said: People think Cortex-A15 is slow, when really it is faster and more powerful than a lot of actual 64-bit ARM cores. For example Cortex-A53, used in a lot of devices is...

For me the worst part is this: Is this bug solved or reasonably avoided? Is this bug commented in a entrance in Pyra Forums, and where is it?

Dear matzesu: There are a lot of available editors in Debian, for console and for graphical mode: https://wiki.debian.org/TextEditor It may be you refer to gedit (it is included by default for GUI mode in Ubuntu), but there are a lot of other much more powerful plain-text editors. gedit is very...

If there is enough Pyra users interested, it would be nice to be able buy an "accesory": spare LCD display for Pyra without resistive touch-screen layer because those layers add a lot of irregular reflection to display (at the same time it lower brightness a bit). It can be appreciated in this...