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Umbrel, whose platform is proprietary, is now trying to sell $600 PCs with their software preinstalled.

Lmao. You can literally run that shit on a Raspberry Pi or a $300 mini PC.

At least when Start9 sells premade modes they use FOSS hardware made by Purism to run FOSS software.

Who makes Umbrel's? They don't say.

https://stacker.news/items/185831

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galegoo⚡ 2y ago

StartOS isn't FOSS

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freecritter 2y ago

Isn’t it similar to coldcard being almost “FOSS” but not 100%?

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Pablo Xannybar 2y ago

I mean, you can build StartOS from source.

If that's not considered FOSS these days then what is?

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rejon 2y ago

it’s hard work to get that software on a computer. It’s not worth the time to money conversion for you or ?

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Pablo Xannybar 2y ago

What isn't FOSS about it?

It's a lightweight Linux distro with a web UI. The full codebase for their OS is on GitHub. You can build it yourself. They even publish a detailed guide on how to do so.

Umbrel distributes FOSS software and has to make their wrappers of it FOSS too under the licenses, but their core platform isn't FOSS.