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#11

Misc / Email problem

Last post by robyinno - June 15, 2021, 12:55:22 PM

Until Today forum email doesn't works, so now we have fixed the configuration, so now it works. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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#12

news from the team / Vote the name of the Motherboa...

Last post by robyinno - June 06, 2021, 07:35:30 PM

In October 2020, we've started to ask the community to suggest names for our motherboard. The suggestions were collected from our powerprogress forum and even from Twitter. We voted internally on these names to pick the best candidates for a public vote. So now you can vote on your favourite names!
Our desire is to collect around 1000 votes before decide the final name on the PCB.

References of the names:

Tyche	Presiding tutelary deity governing the fortune and prosperity of a city, its destiny https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyche
Sam2080	Suggested from ACube
Bellatrix	It's the third brightest star of the constellation Orion (x86, ARM... Power is _the_ third architecture, isn't it?). The name also means "female warrior", because you have to have some Am*ga references...
Oliphant	The antique signaling horn, used by heroes like Roland and Charlemagne, thus conceiving the concept of exotic which gives a strong signal
Debbie	"Introduced on July 23, 1985, during a star-studded gala featuring Andy Warhol and Debbie Harry held at the Vivian Beaumont Theater[10] at Lincoln Center in New York City Debian
FarStar	A space ship imagined by Asimov in its book "Foundation’s Edge", a "gravitic" ship with a sophisticated computer interface for controlling its movements through space that responds to the driver's thoughts
Hénon	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9non_map
Durandal	The mythical sword of Roland/Orlando, conveices the expession of myth and power, but also the difficulty of our project with PPC. Furthermore the name assonates with several wors. "Dur", "Durare" (=to last in Italian), "Duro" =(hard, hard to beat, resilient)
Lilly	my catty dog, do you remember Jay Miner dog on Amiga1000?  Also it's a girl name as the Amiga custom chips.
Velouria	A song from The Pixies. Amiga boards have B52's song titles as names. Also it's a girl name as the Amiga custom chips. Song meaning: https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/43064/?&specific_com=73015985030#comments
Overture	It’s commonly a term used in symphonies, so it really gives a feel of power and elegance, which are potential benefits of this project. It even gives you a whole registry of follow-up terms centered around music, if subsequent models are produced

The VOTE is moved here

#13

news from the team / Dummy board being finalized

Last post by robyinno - June 06, 2021, 02:16:29 PM

It is with great joy that we present you the first tangible result after years of spending time on planning, ideas, projects and schematics. Below you see pictures of the dummy board, a non-working prototype that was printed with a two-layers PCB that was paid thanks to the ongoing donation campaign.

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#14

Notebook chassis / Slimbook Eclipse Notebook Chas...

Last post by robyinno - June 06, 2021, 02:12:00 PM

At the end of September 2019 Slimbook agreed with us to provide the notebook body without motherboard.

An April 2021 update regarding our Notebook Prototypes inform that:
Slimbook support and time was kindly offered for free. Besides that support, we have received two Slimbook Eclipse enclosures to continue our tests. This will make possible to assemble three prototypes of our PPC Notebook. Again, they did it for free. We have no words.

#15

news from the team / PCB Ready by September 2020 â€...

Last post by robyinno - July 27, 2020, 11:29:43 PM

In the next few days the engineer taking care of the motherboard design will concentrate on the PCB, as the Electrical Schematics are now stable enough.

Thanks to the donations already received, the work on the  PCB design ( done with Mentor pads ) can move forward and we estimate it could be completed by September 2020


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#16

news from the team / PCB Design Started! Carpe Diem...

Last post by robyinno - January 27, 2020, 11:10:45 PM

One of the reasons forcing us to speed up the planned activities, is linked to the availability of the Slimbook model Eclipse that will not last forever ... read more...

#17

news from the team / Debian 10 - Updated installati...

Last post by robyinno - January 06, 2020, 09:50:40 PM

Debian 10 - Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-11-22 from our new forum

#18

news from the team / ArcticFox 27.9.18 - Debian pac...

Last post by robyinno - January 06, 2020, 09:48:37 PM

ArcticFox 27.9.18 - Debian package (ppc32) vread more from our new forum

#19

General Discussion / I was perusing through the web...

Last post by sossego - December 24, 2019, 05:16:16 AM

I noticed that the Open Power Foundation and the Power Progress Community are now working together.

Will the standard CPU hertz rate remain at 1.8 GHz or will another higher rate be allowed?

It may be too late to ask this: Does the audio card have its own dedicated memory or is it better to use a USB sound card?

That's it for now.

Obrigado.

#20

news from the team / PCB for a Happy New Year!

Last post by robyinno - December 23, 2019, 10:32:43 PM

Orcad Source Schematics Published

At the end of August of 2019 we published the first version of the schematics in pdf format. Then, in October we uploaded the second version and after that the 13th of November we released the Orcad source, accomplishing what we promised.
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