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canopic jug [soylentnews.org] writes:

The GNU/Linux PowerPC notebook project has the goal of producing a PowerPC-based notebook which is as FOSS-friendly as possible and plans to eventually get the hardware declared to be "Open Source Hardware" as certified by the Open Source Hardware Association. The project has now reached phase One donation campaign Goal Reached! [powerpc-notebook.org]. The motherboard has now been designed and specced out by a professional electronic engineer.

After reaching the amount of 12600€, the electrical schematics will be delivered to us in a month by ACube Systems. The final design resulting from this phase will be made public as soon as possible.

After that, the next step will be to deliver the electical schematics for the printed Circuit Board (PCB) in Gerber format [build-electronic-circuits.com]. Then there will be production and delivery of five working prototypes, followed by hardware testing using software provided by the producer (ACube), and then finally pre- CE certification [wikipedia.org].

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