On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 2:08 AM, green <[email protected]> wrote: > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote at 2011-01-31 09:11 -0700: >> after the somewhat embarrassing lessons learned last year from dealing >> with the GPL-violating seatron ST-PC89E i am still persistently >> looking to bring about a Free Software laptop - one that is actually >> useful and useable (definition: 1gb RAM, 1ghz+ CPU, 11in or greater >> 1280x768 or greater LCD). incredibly, after all the fuss and hype
> I will probably be looking into purchasing a device like this at some point in > the next few years. My interest in free-software devices (primarily, full > mainline Linux support) has increased because of experiences with the other, > less convenient sort of device. :) >> so, simple question, with that background in mind: anyone else >> interested to make this happen? > > Unfortunately I am quite unable to put any resources into this, but I will > certainly be interested and would like to follow progress when/if there is a > website available (libreplanet.org?). i'm currently maintaining links at http://lkcl.net/laptop.html for now, but yes you're the 2nd person to mention libreplanet.org, i'll have a word with them and see what they say. for now, however, the closest possible machine is the efika mx which you _can_ upgrade to a cheap-and-cheerful 1280x720 LCD panel: at least one person has done it, gordon, he's on the fedora-arm mailing list. but if you simply want to know about any other machines there's the [email protected] mailing list, i'm keeping an eye out and then posting there. archives here if you prefer to monitor lists by http, like i do: http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/pipermail/arm-netbook/2011-February/thread.html i'm going to keep on and on and on and on at this until i get a damn machine brought into existence, or find one that's good enough that someone else has done. in three years, not _nobody_ has made a "good enough" ARM-based or MIPS-based laptop, so *sigh* am still on it. if you hear of one (1gb RAM, 1280x768 or greater LCD) please _do_ let me know, i can stop badgering people, then, and help with porting instead :) l. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
