Perhaps, but how can any lovers of free software buy an HP Laptop, whose BIOS prevents you from booting your computer if you have any network adapter not on their whitelist?
It might not exactly be a free software issue, but I think it goes against the same general principle of freedom (free hardware, perhaps?) You can find out more about this by doing a Google search for something like "laptop bios whitelist". -Matt -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Benjamin Story Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 8:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [fsck] Re: Laptops HP Will sell you a laptop without Windows. It will instead be preloaded with Novell Linux (aka SuSe). Chris Miller wrote: > I also may be looking for a laptop soon. Does anyone know of a > manufacturer that sells them sans windows? I hate paying for > something that I won't be using. > > -Chris > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with Subject: unsubscribe > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
