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APU

PC Engines APU 1D

PC Engines APU 1D is a single board computer with 3 Gigabit ethernet ports, a powerful AMD APU and Coreboot firmware. FreedomBox images built for AMD64 machines are tested to work well for it.

Important: Read general advice about hardware before building a FreedomBox with this single board computer.

Similar Hardware

Although untested, the following similar hardware is also likely to work well with FreedomBox.

Download

FreedomBox disk images for this hardware are available. Follow the instructions on the download page to create a FreedomBox SD card, USB disk, SSD or hard drive and boot into FreedomBox. Pick the image meant for all amd64 machines.

An alternative to downloading these images is to install Debian on the APU and then install FreedomBox on it.

Networking

The first network port, the left most one in the above picture, is configured by FreedomBox to be an upstream Internet link and the remaining 2 ports are configured for local computers to connect to.

Availability

Hardware

  • Open Hardware: No

  • CPU: AMD G series T40E

  • RAM: 2 GB DDR3-1066 DRAM

  • Storage: SD card, External USB

  • Architecture: amd64

  • Ethernet: 3 Gigabit Ethernet ports

  • WiFi: None, use a USB WiFi device

  • SATA: 1 m-SATA and 1 SATA

Non-Free Status

  • Non-free blobs required: No

  • WiFi: Not available

  • Boot firmware: Coreboot