Purism mostly disables the Intel ME, at least in theory: https://puri.sm/posts/purism-librem-laptops-completely-disable-intel-management-engine/
https://puri.sm/learn/intel-me/ Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Friday, April 19, 2019 4:59 AM, Tobias Platen <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 18.04.2019 um 04:44 schrieb Katherine Cox-Buday: > > > Hey all, > > I brought this up in IRC tonight, and I thought I'd cast a net on the > > mailing list to collect experiences. I am considering purchasing a > > Librem laptop, and I was curious how Guix runs on it. Would anyone who > > has these laptops (especially if you have a version with the TPM and > > head) care to write up an experience-report? > > Also, would it make sense for us to have a package specifically for > > hardware like this to make it easier to build install images for the > > machines? Even if the packages don't do much, there is still value in > > declaring that the specific configuration of hardware has been > > investigated, and is supported. > > Guix runs on two of my coreboot machines: the ThinkPad X200 and the > Vikings D16. > Since the Librem laptop has Intel ME, it won't respect privacy and > freedom. [1] > The Talos II [2] and the upcoming PowerPC notebook [3] do not have that > problem. > Currently I am working on a port to Guix to PPC64EL so that I can use > Guix on my Talos II. > > Tobias > > [1] > https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/the-management-engine-an-attack-on-computer-users-freedom > [2] https://www.raptorcs.com/ > [3] https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/en/
