This is a read-only archive of community.oshwa.org. If you find any issues or missing data, please email us or file an issue on GitHub.

In Search of a Silicon Valley Open Source Hardware Personal Computer

niccolox
Mar 12, 2017

hi

I am looking for a USA made, actually, Silicon Valley made open source hardware personal computer

I would actually settle for USA made

caleb
Mar 13, 2017

Check out https://system76.com/ and https://puri.sm/, I’m sure there are more out there! I’m not 100% sure if Purism’s laptops are USA made but I know that System 76 is based out of Denver, Colorado.

You’ll be able to find varying degrees of “open” in commercial laptops but until processor manufacturers do away with things like Intel’s Management Engine or AMD’s Platform Security Processor or even Raspberry Pi’s proprietary blobs of software there won’t be a 100% open software and hardware computer. There are projects in varying degrees of development like the various RISC-V platforms though!