> So to recap my original post, the basic requirements are: > - fanless mini PC > - it will run Debian > - production environment (reliability is important) > - good Linux support to facilitate fast deployment and low maintenance, > - avoiding non-free software (non-free firmware, out-of-tree kernel modules, > ndiswrapper)
My Fit-PC2 is running stock Debian, and "vrms" tells me that the only non-Free code it has installed is firmware-ralink (well, it also mentions some non-DFSG packages which the FSF considers as Free). The wireless chip was not well supported by the stock kernel when I got it, but I haven't needed it very often and the few times I've needed it it worked just fine (including "WPA Enterprise"). The same should hold for the Fit-PC3 (tho you may want to check their forums first, since support for some particular features like the IR interface or the watchdog may not all be supported by the current kernel). While they don't guarantee that the stock kernels supports all the hardware, they do care about GNU/Linux support and provide fairly good information on the forums about the available support, so you can make up your mind before actually buying the unit. You can actually buy them with some GNU/Linux pre-installed. IOW it's one of the companies I've found to be most supportive of using GNU/Linux on their devices. I'd love to hear of others, especially if they're even more clearly supportive of Free Software, since I like to vote with my feet, Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jwvzkcja5va.fsf-monnier+gmane.linux.debian.u...@gnu.org