Re: [Debconf-discuss] Non-Thinkpad/Apples you can recommend?

[Keerthana Krishnan]

Hi guys,

On 1 July 2016 at 23:36, Gunnar Wolf  wrote:

> martin f krafft dijo [Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 11:00:46PM +0200]:
> > Hey,
> >
> > considering Lenovo has really gone downhill with their hardware and
> > judging how they interpret "next business day" to be a best effort
> > sort of non-promise (and then mess up the parts delivery), I'd be
> > really interested to hear from people at DC16 with other hardware
> > that they can recommend. If you're the proud owner of a rugged
> > laptop running Debian, please consider to ping me on IRC ('madduck')
> > or reply to this mail (reply-to set) and I'll come and find you
> > (starting Saturday…).
>
> After swearing not to ever buy an Acer again in the early 2000s, I
> broke my word and got one of the first-generation netbook Aspire One
> models. I used it as my primary laptop for >5 years.
>
> I am in my third year using the second machine of the same brand/line;
> am completely happy and satisfied. For my first machine, I had to
> change the battery once (never had to with the current one), and for
> both, I had to change the power adaptor. Power adaptors are probably
> the best you will find in this brand.
>
> The machines are on the slow side of reality, but for modest needs,
> they do the job quite well.
>
>
I second acer laptops. My entire family and I have been using acer laptops
each for the past 3-4 years as very happy customers. We have about 5
laptops between us, three large ones and two small netbooks and they all
run great! +1!


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Re: [Debconf-discuss] hardware which runs Debian or a blend or a sub-set, debian blends, gaming on open day/week-end.

[Keerthana Krishnan]

Wow, that sounds like a great idea if done! It showcases the versatility of
Debian beautifully, but is it possible to pull it together?

On 2 June 2016 at 05:03, shirish शिरीष <shirisha...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Warning - Would be slightly longish mail. Apologies for noise.
>
> Maybe it's too late in the day but for quite sometime I had been
> thinking/dreaming if we could have/show-cased Debian running on
> various hardware doing different things, unusual things . While Debian
> on the desktop, workstation and server and Debian on ARM is somewhat
> known there are and would probably be some unusual devices where
> Debian or a sub-set/blend is used.
>
> For instance, Debian-Edu would be a good candidate to share and
> showcase as well as Debian Med and other such blends which run/use
> specific hardware which ties in debian, for instance the galileo
> package which just entered Debian archive just today which works with
> 'fitbit' devices (have no idea what they are.).
>
> There would also be quite some equipment which probably is integrated
> or in process of being integrated/reverse-engineered which people
> would love to see.
>
> IIRC, even HP one of the main sponsors of debconf, is/was bringing out
> 'The Machine'  although later we don't know what is happening to it,
>
> http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/207897-hp-kills-the-machine-repurposes-design-around-conventional-technologies
>
> One of the DD's was working with HP 'The Machine' project. I also
> remember that some VR packages were made for Debian (and are the
> archive I *think*) , it would be good/nice if are able to try out HP's
> backpack for VR
>
> http://www.in.techradar.com/news/gaming/HP-and-MSIs-backpacks-put-a-new-spin-on-VR/articleshow/52467485.cms
> and see what can be worked within the Debian universe.
>
> Similarly as there would be kids (as well as big kids/adults) who
> might like to blow off steam once in a while, we could have few
> systems where we have games like 0ad or/and vdrift, supertuxkart among
> others who could get some potential new users while having good PR for
> Debian too.
>
> The only downside I see here is that we would need slightly large
> number of volunteers than some of the other choices that indiebio has
> outlined. https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16/DebianDay
>
> What do people think/make of above ?
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