Re: [DNG] HW: Which brand and model of lapto have your successfully installed Devuan on?

2020-04-12 Thread ael via Dng
On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 11:56:07AM +1000, terryc wrote: > > I have a strong preference to not pay the Microsoft Tax and not waste > my money on bits for which there are no linux drivers. Obviously > running Devuan is preferable. > > Unfortunately, there appears to be no local vendor of Linux

Re: [DNG] HW: Which brand and model of lapto have your successfully installed Devuan on?

2020-04-10 Thread Emiliano Marini via Dng
Sony VAIO E14 (SVE14125CLB). Piece of cake. Everything (I need) works out-of-the-box. Don't know it BT works because I don't need it, never used it. Cheers. On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 10:53 AM ael wrote: > On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 11:56:07AM +1000, terryc wrote: > > > > I have a strong preference

Re: [DNG] HW: Which brand and model of lapto have your successfully installed Devuan on?

2020-04-09 Thread ael
On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 11:56:07AM +1000, terryc wrote: > > I have a strong preference to not pay the Microsoft Tax and not waste > my money on bits for which there are no linux drivers. Obviously > running Devuan is preferable. > > Unfortunately, there appears to be no local vendor of Linux

Re: [DNG] HW: Which brand and model of lapto have your successfully installed Devuan on?

2020-04-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 11:56:07AM +1000, terryc wrote: > This is a hardware question. > Which brand and model(s) of laptop have people successfully installed > devuan onto? > How difficult was it? Purism's Librem 15, version 3. Comes with coreboot and the Intel Management engine disabled. No

Re: [DNG] HW: Which brand and model of lapto have your successfully installed Devuan on?

2020-04-09 Thread Dimitris via Dng
On 4/9/20 3:05 PM, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote: > I have received good service from them. They are in the UK, I'm in > Japan but that wasn't a problem. I got to them via the FSF's RYF > (Respects Your Freedom) site. You might want to check that out. https://minifree.org/ bankrupt, shutting

Re: [DNG] HW: Which brand and model of lapto have your successfully installed Devuan on?

2020-04-09 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
Hi, terryc writes: > This is a hardware question. > Which brand and model(s) of laptop have people successfully installed > devuan onto? I bought a Libreboot T400 (refurbished Lenovo T400) from Minifree a couple of years ago. Typing this message from it right now ;-) I have received good

Re: [DNG] HW: Which brand and model of lapto have your successfully installed Devuan on?

2020-04-09 Thread Tito via Dng
Hi, 1 DELL LATITUDE D820 1 ASUS EEPC 1018PX they just work. Ciao, Tito On 4/9/20 3:56 AM, terryc wrote: > This is a hardware question. > Which brand and model(s) of laptop have people successfully installed > devuan onto? > How difficult was it? > > Thank You In Advance. > > The long

Re: [DNG] HW: Which brand and model of lapto have your successfully installed Devuan on?

2020-04-09 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 09/04/2020 à 03:56, terryc a écrit : Which brand and model(s) of laptop have people successfully installed devuan onto? How difficult was it?     Installing Devuan/Debian always requires some knowledge of Linux and experience of Debian is helpfull. You often need to have a few own tricks

Re: [DNG] HW: Which brand and model of lapto have your successfully installed Devuan on?

2020-04-09 Thread spiralofhope
On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 11:56:07 +1000 terryc wrote: > Which brand and model(s) of laptop have people successfully installed > devuan onto? I have a $300 (CAD) Dell Inspiron 11 3180. According to my mid 2018 notes I tried Devuan_ascii_2.0.0_i386_desktop-live.iso and had issues with graphics being

Re: [DNG] HW: Which brand and model of lapto have your successfully installed Devuan on?

2020-04-09 Thread Joril via Dng
On 09/04/20 03:56, terryc wrote: This is a hardware question. Which brand and model(s) of laptop have people successfully installed devuan onto? How difficult was it? HP db1043nl, installed Beowulf in... November? Wifi and graphics drivers didn't work out of the box, so I had to use another

Re: [DNG] HW: Which brand and model of lapto have your successfully installed Devuan on?

2020-04-09 Thread tom
On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 11:56:07 +1000 terryc wrote: > This is a hardware question. > Which brand and model(s) of laptop have people successfully installed > devuan onto? > How difficult was it? > > Thank You In Advance. > > The long story; I finally have a need to purchase my own personal > laptop

Re: [DNG] HW: Which brand and model of lapto have your successfully installed Devuan on?

2020-04-09 Thread Rod Rodolico
I tend to purchase used equipment from a refurbisher, so this is old equipment. Dell Latitude E6440 installs fine, but bluetooth does not have drivers that I can find. Some weird Dell labeled part. There was some stuff on their site indicating you could make it work, but I'm lazy so I used a USB

Re: [DNG] HW: Which brand and model of lapto have your successfully installed Devuan on?

2020-04-09 Thread tempforever
Devuan ascii successfully installed, regularly used on the following laptops: Lenovo Thinkpad T550 -- the sd card reader does not work (think this is a hardware problem though, I did get a refurbished machine) HP Pavillion - not sure the exact model # These next two ran ascii, then

[DNG] HW: Which brand and model of lapto have your successfully installed Devuan on?

2020-04-08 Thread terryc
This is a hardware question. Which brand and model(s) of laptop have people successfully installed devuan onto? How difficult was it? Thank You In Advance. The long story; I finally have a need to purchase my own personal laptop and have spent the last few days searching for such a beastie that