I just finished reading this:
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2013/Mar-05.html
I couldn't find a thread here that discussed this, but maybe there is one. I
tend to think that a lot of the reason the GNU/Linux desktop hasn't crossed
the desktop chasm is hardware. Miguel sites in his blog
Printers are never a problem if you buy from right company. HP Linux driver
is fully free. http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html
Now back on topic. Problem is not that you cannot find good free driver for
any graphic card out there, infact, most of the people do not care about
Before kernels from non-official sources, one could try Linux-libre 3.5 by
installing the package linux-generic-lts-belenos (and rebooting the
computer).
IMHO is strange like many free software supporters for years (10 years or
more) buy bad computers today. If you live in the US why not buy in
ThinkPenguin? If I want do buy one I need to pay shipping and 60% of tax... I
need to pay two laptops and receive one ;-)
Is the better company sell
Some projects made with Blender and FreeCAD: http://yorik.uncreated.net/
Took a look around and I think I understand the difference better now, and
there's really no reason not to go for 64bits.
While researching for a solution to the wireless firmware I stumbled upon the
broadcom open source drivers, that then proceed to install proprietary
firmware. It's
Are Blender and FreeCAD cool? Yup.
Can they import dwg? Nop.
Without complete dwg support they aren't usefull, especially to students
since every school in my country uses AutoCAD.
Big question is why do they buy laptop with Windows regardless of vendor if
they don't want Windows. I never understood that :/ Asus offers No-OS
laptops. As a bonus, its cheaper!
Let's focus on the common BY-SA for consistency. That can't be the intended
meaning, because the license already has, in clause 4b:
(I) You must include a copy of, or the URI for, the Applicable License with
every copy of each Adaptation You Distribute or Publicly Perform;
(III) You must
I'm no lawyer, but that's not how I'm interpreting that. I'm interpreting it
as don't pretend that dick you drew on the painting was from the original
author.
Hi,
Have you heard about www.h-node.org ? Its a hardware database which aims to
collect information about how well various devices like laptops, graphic
cards and wifi cards work with free software. You can use it to find
compatible hardware in the future. You can also contribute to it by
Already covered by clause 3b: provided that any such Adaptation, including
any translation in any medium, takes reasonable steps to clearly label,
demarcate or otherwise identify that changes were made to the original Work.
You could also check whether your sound card is compatible with free
software. Take a peek at www.h-node.org.
H-node a hardware database which aims to collect information about how well
various devices like laptops, graphic cards and wifi cards work with free
software. You can use it to
You had better directly contact Chris. He is the CEO of ThinkPenguin. ;-)
how can i change the graphics mode for the boot process?
am using the libre-linux kernel from jxself's repository and it used to show
me a penguin mascot while booting. at some point the graphics mode must have
changed, i can't say when that was, but now i see some garbage pixels during
You should contact Creative Commons and FSF Licensing Compliance Team, then
report back.
Agreed. Chris is pretty good at responding at questions/comments and posts
here a lot. He's pretty friendly too, from what I saw.
Interesting
...but baffling! o_O
Have you changed the reso in grub config? Remember to update-grub afterwards
if you do.
Thanks guys, I will send Chris a message.
If brightness keys don't work by default try adding
# sudo apt-get install xbacklight
then you can manually set your hot keys to raise and lower the brightness.
http://linux.die.net/man/1/xbacklight
There was going to be a higher resolution model back in September... it
didn't happen.
It's still not off the table although we need to get the demand up to do it.
I hope we can fix the resource issue although almost everything is on hold
until our new web site is rolled out. That has been
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