The Free Software Foundation has unveiled a new device that has received the "Respect Your Freedom" certification, which certifies that the device complies with user privacy and freedom requirements and gives the right to use a special logo in related materials, emphasizing giving the user full control over the device. The certificate was issued to the Gigabit Mini VPN Router (TPE-R1400) distributed by ThinkPenguin.
The TPE-R1400 router is built on the Rockchip RK3328 SoC with a quad-core Cortex-A53 (1.4Ghz) CPU, comes with 1 GB of RAM, is equipped with two Gigabit Ethernet interfaces (1 WAN and 1 LAN), a USB 2.0 port and a Micro-SD slot (stuffing completely similar to the NanoPi R2S device supplied with FriendlyWrt/OpenWrt). The device does not have Wi-Fi, for organizing wireless access TPE-R1400 is recommended to be used in combination with a TPE-R1300 wireless router from the same manufacturer, which was previously certified by the Free Software Foundation.
The router comes with a U-Boot bootloader and firmware based on the completely free libreCMC distribution, which is a fork of OpenWRT that ships with the Linux-libre kernel and is stripped of binary drivers, firmware, and applications distributed under a non-free license. The distribution provides built-in tools for organizing the operation of systems on a local network via VPN and supports connection to VPN based on OpenVPN and WireGuard, as well as connection through VPN providers such as Mullvad, AirVPN, OVPN, njalla, PureVPN, HideMyAss, IPredator and NordVPN.
To be certified by the Free Software Foundation, a product must meet the following requirements:
- supply of free drivers and firmware;
- all software supplied with the device must be free;
- no DRM restrictions;
- the ability to fully control the operation of the device;
- support for firmware replacement;
- support for completely free GNU/Linux distributions;
- the use of patent-free formats and software components;
- availability of free documentation.
Previously certified devices include:
- TET-X200, TET-X200T, TET-X200s, TET-T400, TET-T400s and TET-T500 laptops (Lenovo ThinkPad X200, T400 and T500 refurbished versions), Vikings X200, Gluglug X60 (Lenovo ThinkPad X60), Libreboot X200 ( Lenovo ThinkPad X200), Taurinus X200 (Lenovo ThinkPad X200), Libreboot T400 (Lenovo ThinkPad T400);
- PC Vikings D8 Workstation;
- ThinkPenguin, ThinkPenguin TPE-NWIFIROUTER, TPE-R1100, ThinkPenguin TPE-R1300, and Wireless-N Mini Router v2 (TPE-R1200) wireless routers;
- 3D printers LulzBot AO-101 and LulzBot TAZ 6;
- Wireless USB adapters Tehnoetic TET-N150, TET-N150HGA, TET-N300, TET-N300HGA, TET-N300DB, TET-N450DB, Penguin PE-G54USB2, Penguin TPE-N300PCIED2, TPE-NHMPCIED2, TPE-NMPCIE, Libiquity Wi- Fri;
- TET-D16 (ASUS KGPE-D16 with Coreboot firmware), Vikings D16, Vikings D8 (ASUS KCMA-D8), Talos II and Talos II Lite motherboards based on POWER9 processors;
- eSATA / SATA controller with PCIe interface (6Gbps);
- Sound cards Vikings (USB), Penguin TPE-USBSOUND and TPE-PCIESNDCRD;
- TET-X200DOCK and TET-T400DOCK docking stations for X200, T400 and T500 notebook series;
- Bluetooth adapter TET-BT4 USB;
- Programmer Zerocat Chipflasher;
- Tablet Minifree Libreboot X200 Tablet;
- Ethernet Adapters PCIe Gigabit Ethernet (TPE-1000MPCIE Dual Port), PCI Gigabit Ethernet (TPE-1000MPCI), Penguin 10/100 USB Ethernet v1 (TPE-100NET1), and Penguin 10/100 USB v2 (TPE-100NET2);
- Penguin TPE-USBMIC microphone with USB interface, TPE-USBPARAL adapter.
Source: opennet.ru