Fund free software certified Wireless Router ThinkPenguin TPE-R1300

Fund free introduced a new device that received the certificate” Respect Your Freedom “, which confirms the conformity of the device Requirements Privacy and Freedom of Users and gives the right to use a special logo In the product associated with the product, emphasizing the provision of fully controlled by the device.
The certificate has been issued by the Wireless-N Mini Router V3 router ( TPE-R1300 ) distributed by ThinkPenguin.

TPE-R1300 is an enhanced version of TPE-R1100 and TPE-R1200 certified in 2016 and 2019. New model is equipped Soc Qualcomm QCA9531 (650mhz) provides 128MB RAM, 16MB NOR Flash + 128MB Nand Flash, comes with two external RP-SMA antennas, WAN, LAN ports, USB2.0, MicroUSB and UART.

Router comes with a U-Boot loader and firmware based on a completely free distribution librecmc , which is a branch from OpenWRT supplied with the Linux-Libre core and Purified from binary drivers, firmware and applications distributed under non-free license. The distribution provides built-in tools for working via VPN and anonymization of traffic using the Tor network.

To obtain a certificate from the CPO Fund, the product must meet the following requirements:

  • Supply of free drivers and firmware;
  • All software supplied with the device must be free;
  • lack of DRM restrictions;
  • the ability to fully control the operation of the device;
  • support for replacing firmware;
  • Support for fully free GNU / Linux distributions;
  • use not limited to patents of formats and software components;
  • availability of free documentation.

from previously certified devices can be noted:

  • TET-X200 laptops, TET-X200T, TET-X200S, TET-T400, TET-T400S and TET-T500 (Restored Lenovo ThinkPad X200, T400 and T500), 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;
  • Wireless Routers ThinkPenguin , ThinkPenguin TPE-NWIFirouter, TPE-R1100 and Wireless-N MINI ROUTER V2 (TPE-R1200);
  • 3D printers Lulzbot AO-101 and Lulzbot TAZ 6;
  • Wireless USB adapters Tehnoetic Tet-N150 , TET-N150HGA , TET-N300

/Media reports.