RE: people who work for purism say i am being unfair I am the counterpart to you guys somehow getting the tech media to publish glorified press releases for you and everything I say is true.
People need to know the truth about what they would be purchasing, this issue isn't and never was the fact that you are selling non-free laptops - it is that you are claiming they are somehow open source firwmare/libre/me disabled when they are not and could never be. Remember any code exploit for ME is illegal in the US and buying new intel/amd x86 hardware supports further anti-feature development...why not make an OpenPOWER laptop? nothing is stopping you besides the false belief that it is somehow impossible to make and sell owner controlled hardware that is fast and modern - other companies are doing instead of trying. The business model of somehow keeping up open source firmware releases with new x86 hardware without any vendor cooperation is impossible - it would take years and millions to reverse engineer FSP thus x86 will never be free. On 11/13/2018 06:03 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Sorry to jump out of the Purism thing. Some weeks ago I put here the question too and it was bit stormy, so I keep it aside. > > Mate, you mention the "Lenova 400 series". That was my question short before in my post. I am planning to buy this guy: https://tehnoetic.com/tet-t400s <https://tehnoetic.com/tet-t400s> It is RYF and so the ME and AMT is completely removed. My question was, if I could run Qubes 4 on it. The answer was it is too old to have the required virtualization needed to run Qubes 4. > > Now, do you think the RYF T400s above, which si T400 series you mention, could run the Qubes 4? This would be great. One could run the reasonably secure OS on reasonably secure HW. Yay! > It can't since there is no working IOMMU with coreboot and it lacks real security due to intels first gen iommu being terrible. X230 can't have ME disabled like T400 only nerfed the hw init "bup" module still runs (although more than skylake stuff where the kernel runs and then is politely asked to shut off) Get an A10 quad core G505s (no ME/PSP) IMO it isn't that hard to compile and install coreboot - myself and various others are willing to help owner controlled system users for free if you run in to trouble. The g505s and other AMD FT3 systems are the only owner controlled qubes 4.0 compatible laptops and they don't have the huge performance penalty the intel stuff does due to the spectre fixes. Todd weaver started and owns the company so he isn't mis-informed he is simply used to making claims he can't deliver because he has no ethics, no real technical skills and he still fails to listen to those who do. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/fc5ab310-4e30-7e39-7996-8004ffb23b5a%40gmx.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
