Adrian Colomitchi <acolomit...@gmail.com> writes: > Unfortunately, based on my experience, you will have to compile the > specs.
Thank you for responding with encouragement nevertheless: > Fortunately, its not 2000 any more: most of the components are > supported by kernel drivers - the "horror driver stories" mostly > pertains to "medieval ages" nowadays (even the laptops support a linux > installation out of the box). Yes, but that's the easy claim to make these days. The pertinent question is: Do they support Linux *without binary blobs*, such as found in Trisquel or gNewSense or Debian with only free software, out of the box? That's the question I know has been answered thousands of times by others for specified hardware configurations, and am hoping that knowledge doesn't need to be discovered yet again in my case. > I suggest you give www.msy.com.au a try. Thanks, I will if I can actually get their attention; when I've bought from them in the past they've been insanely busy :-) -- \ “Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?” “I think so, | `\ Brain, but if the plural of mouse is mice, wouldn't the plural | _o__) of spouse be spice?” —_Pinky and The Brain_ | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Free-software-melb mailing list Free-software-melb@lists.softwarefreedom.com.au http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/mailman/listinfo/free-software-melb
