It's probably better to come to #libreboot if you're having issues with it.
on freenode IRC
https://lut.im/
free image site. software that runs it is AGPL licensed
I'd say you're the one desperate, judging by all the lies and contradictions
you've submitted in this thread that wasn't even about Minifree. But everyone
is free to judge and they have your track record as reference too. Good
night.
/tct
telling your kids not to use social networking like the book of faeces or
instant cramp, might be hard for them socially. if you can make them avoid
those kinds of sites, though, and perhaps teach them more privacy-respecting
ways of social communication online, you could set up a VPN router
afaik USB support is broken in GRUB, on that board, as are a few other
features, making it unusable. I don't remember the details, all I know is
that tpearson said seabios is to be used instead of grub
since seabios doesn't understand luks/dm-crypt, that means you have to leave
/boot/
it makes sense that javascript would be executed, given how youtube works
it's possible in firefox to install greasemonkey and replace those scripts
anyway. perhaps replace the JS and make youtube-dl use that instead?
I think that the lack of libre EC on libreboot-supported thinkpads is a great
shame, and I hope that swiftgeek well be successful in his work to liberate
it.
There are some laptops (Rockchip ARM chromebooks) in Libreboot that have
libre EC, but in return for lack of wifi or video
This just reeks of desperation on Tiberiu's part. Unhappy with my (quite
legitimate) criticisms of him, he proceeds to slander me and spread false
rumours about Minifree mistreating its customers.
He wishes to discredit me, by (as of right now) spouting outright lies about
my company,
Since you go on accusing Technoethical, below another complaint from one of
your customers:
"Buying from Minifree was a nightmare experience (I will spare you the
details) and I don't want to interact with [Leah] anymore."
Go to any company on earth that is large enough, and you'll find that a
minority of their customers will give pretty bad reviews, almost indictments
you could say. It happens.
Bringing a few people here who had a bad experience (because yes, I am only
human and do make mistakes sometimes)
Tiberiu,
Do you mind me bringing my recent customers here too and asked them to
comment on the excellent service that they received?
because i have a lot of them recently, and they'll probably tell you that
minifree is doing a good job
;)
Trying to spin it again? As you know, I was talking about customers of
Minifree that have been mistreated by you.
Yes, please do tell us how Minifree mistreated you.
Tiberiu, this is beyond ridiculous now, you know that right?
Unlike you, I would never impersonate people. The complaint pasted here is
real and will stand in court.
https://trisquel.info/files/libreboot-72-impersonation.png
I invite people that have been mistreated by Minifree to come forward and
become whistleblowers.
You are now engaging in slander.
Minifree would never provide such poor service as indicated by that apparent
complaint you pasted. And we always refund people when they request it, if we
do a poor job (since we get so many orders, so mistake are sometimes made).
Your tactics will not work
Victimize yourself what you want. You have made claims about our product that
you haven't (heat problems) and couldn't (warranty problems) prove. Nice try
spinning what you've done.
I am disappointed, the world is disappointed in you because of your actions
and that's why you don't receive
You accuse me of anti-competitive business practices and FUD, just because I
made a few criticisms. You then "threaten" me by publishing details customers
of yours gave you about Minifree's practises. What practises? Minifree does a
good job. There might be a few customers who are
1. The "potential issues" you claim to exist is FUD. We at Technoethical
guarantee this. The reviews of our products and the comments prove our
products are of the best quality.
2. We have already answered to your unsubstantiated claims. It's not
criticism because you don't hold the object
We sometimes have AZERTY keyboard in stock too.
This issue seems to affect other distros too. If anyone finds a fix, please
submit a patch to libreboot's grub.cfg:
https://libreboot.org/git.html
Note that manually booting works fine (e.g. linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1,
initrd /initrd.img) in most setups.
This issue needs to be fixed for
hi,
can you document any solution that you find to this on libreboot.org?
https://libreboot.org/git.html#editing-the-website-and-documentation-wiki-style
Note that this is for development, not support. However, support with
compiling from source is provided on the development mailing list.
grub payload is currently broken on kfsn4-dre, so you have to use seabios
which means that /boot/ has to be unencrypted. ping tpearson about it on
freenode irc
there was also a fosdem talk about this, which was quite interesting:
https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/riscv/
You're welcome :)
tox works pretty well
there's also a tor-based chat client called ricochet which works well
Hi Thvie,
The EC firmware is indeed non-free, as it is on all other
Libreboot-preinstall sellers too:
https://libreboot.org/faq.html#ec-embedded-controller-firmware
What you're purchasing is a system that has a free BIOS replacement
(Libreboot) and free operating system (Trisquel
Hi Tiberiu,
I'm not spreading FUD; I'm simply pointing out potential issues, since I've
used a T400S myself; overheating and lack of availability (making warranties
harder to provide) is precisely why Minifree doesn't sell the T400S, and
instead focuses exclusively on the T400. The T400 is
Hi uboot,
The kill switch works with our half-size TET-N300DB WiFi card we've launched
1 month ago:
https://technoethical.com/tet-n300db
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/technoethical-n300hga-adapter-2-antennas-and-n300db-half-size-card
The full-size TET-N450DB is still more powerful than
Not at all. I'm simply saying that the cooling is not as efficient; this does
not mean that the T400S would overheat.
Regarding warranty; have a look online and try to find T400S and T400. You
will find that the T400 is readily available, but the T400S is much less
available. The lower
Leah,
It does seem that you are making speculations and spreading FUD about the
Technoethical T400s laptop. And at least when it comes to quad-core CPU
compatibility, it does seem you know less than others about the only laptop
that you also sell (the T400).
You wrote: "the T400S can get
Tiberiu,
I'm not spreading FUD or speculating. I'm bringing up real issues with your
product, since I know a bit more about these laptops that others ;)
I think you have a good product, but with the high price and considering that
it's not much different than the T400 which Minifree sells,
I'd like to take a moment and remind everyone Trisquel's community Code of
Conduct:
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/trisquel-community-guidelines#toc3
Some of us here are owners and supporters of different free software
companies, but we are all working towards the same goal, software
No need to repeat myself. For the answers, please go to:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/technoethical-t400s-now-available#comment-116060
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/technoethical-t400s-now-available#comment-116118
/tct
Asking community members to confirm a statement is not FUD. I welcome any of
the Technoethical customers on this forum to come forward if they had to
return any of our laptops for warranty.
Examples of FUD are:
* "the T400S can get quite a bit hotter than the T400, because the T400S has
It'd be nice to get some confirmations from customers in the community that
"Minifree ships T400 with T9400 and T9550 all the time", all the time, but in
any case I suggest you make it official on the product page which still lists
P8400 in specifications. Of course, T400 w/ P8400 is more
Yes, T9600 (2.80 GHz) usually have double the price of T9550 (2.66 GHz), but
they're not even remotely as expensive as the T9900 (3.06 GHz) are, with
prices between 125-225 USD.
you can also stream youtube in vlc
ctrl+n, paste youtube url
:)
Tiberiu,
Minifree ships T400 with T9400 and T9550 all the time, often without the
customer even asking. You're also forgetting the P8700. Of course, customers
can request CPU upgrades too.
T400 CPUs are the same performance-wise as T400S, and the power usage + heat
generation isn't
New pictures with the Technoethical T400s! Enjoy:
https://technoethical.com/tet-t400s
As I've mentioned before, we at Technoethical have tested compatibility with
different processors as well. Quad-core doesn't work with regular T400
(GM45).
T400 usually comes with P8400 (2.26 GHz) or P8600 (2.40 GHz) processors,
while the T400s comes with better processors, SP9400 (2.40
transferwise charges like 5 USD i think, and their exchange rates are pretty
accurate so you don't lose much there either. transferwise is mentioned on
the automated invoices that minifree.org sends out when you place an order.
it's a way to do international wire transfers cheaply
Yes, I forgot that someone had tested those. In that case, I take back my
previous statement.
However, the CPUs on T400 are still upgradeable, and there are better CPUs
available for it than T400S.
I'm currently sifting through all the undocumented bits in the intel flash
descriptor, attempting to find a ME disable bit like we did on GM45 (X200,
T400, etc) when I worked with sgsit on porting the X200 to Libreboot.
Progress is going well.
I'm confident that it can be done, since
I have no problems with libreCMC myself. I'm using it on my Netgear WNDR3800
to power my network, and it works very well.
The only issue I've had with it so far is IPv6 support; the lead developer
didn't have IPv6 last time I spoke to them, so they were unable to test it.
Forking LibreCMC wasn't and isn't one of the objectives of Technoethical.
Hi everyone,
See:
https://libreboot.org/news/new-mailing-lists.html
We are currently seeking new developers for Libreboot. We now have a mailing
list for the project, in case anyone wants to get involved.
~Leah
Hmm, a speculation. No noticeable heat problems with the T400s and we've been
using these laptops for some time now. But we can do comparative stress tests
with the T400, just to avoid any doubts.
We usually ship UK keyboards by default, but where possible we do update the
keyboard layout. We usually have QWERTZ keyboards, which we regularly install
on laptops ordered by German customers. We also regularly have scandinavian
keyboards, for swedish/norwegian customers
Note that thinner isn't necessarily good for cooling; the T400S can get quite
a bit hotter than the T400, because the T400S has less physical space for
airflow. Being thinner also means that the heatsink is thinner and the fan
much smaller.
8GB RAM upgrade on Minifree laptops is possible,
coreboot people have been at this for years and all they've managed was to
remove some partitions to small down the ME blob.
What makes you sure the goal to completely removal ME from coreboot for X220
is achievable and what is your progress so far? We at Technoethical might be
able to
Thank you, you should hear GNUs from us soon regarding routers with fully
free systems and fully free boot firmware.
We were planning to launch routers two years ago, but LibreCMC configs were
missing for their supported targets and ThinkPenguin's "heavily modified"
u-boot sources were not
Thickness comparison between T400 and T400s in pictures:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/t400s-officially-announced.392646/page-3#post-4994648
Technoethical laptops come with modern Bluetooth 4.0 (25 Mbps), which is 12
times faster than the Bluetooth 2.1 (2 Mbps) that was shipped by
Tiberiu, are you just using the standard Libreboot releases for this T400S
product?
There are a few features missing on T400S in Libreboot, which we have not yet
merged in Libreboot.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreboot-dev/2016-08/msg00027.html
Are these patches present in your
Thanks :)
I'm currently working on porting the ThinkPad X220 to Libreboot, and I'm
using the T400 on Minifree to fund the work. Every purchase helps!
Hopefully these new low prices will also make the laptops affordable for
people living in poor countries (e.g. south america, parts of
I'm currently working on porting the ThinkPad X220 and T420 to Libreboot,
which includes removing the ME entirely instead of just "neutralizing" it (or
minimizing it). Once achieved, it will be available on Minifree and we will
seek FSF RYF endorsement.
In addition, there are some AMD
Minifree's regular T400 is also available:
https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-t400/
The price is much lower than Technoethical's T400S and also has bluetooth
built in on most models: Minifree's T400 is 198 EUR, Technoethical's T400S is
778 EUR.
The actual thickness of the T400S is not
@Vanecek Thank GNU!
Indeed, the X220 and T420 can't be used without the nonfree (smaller-sized or
not) ME blob in the coreboot ROM, and that's why these laptops are not
supported by libreboot.
We recommend using the term "minimized" instead of "neutralized" when talking
about ME, since the most important part
Yes, and the best processor available (soldered on the mainboard, so not
replaceable) is the SP9600. The screen is LED and much better than the common
T400 screens. You'll also feel the difference in portability.
Please feel free to buy a ThinkPad T400s and send it over to Technoethical to
The keyboard is more recent, it's the same keyboard you can find in T420. But
T420 doesn't have fully free BIOS. The X220 doesn't have fully free BIOS
either.
Yes, the touchpad is textured. :-)
Technoethical team is happy to announce the T400s (not to be confused with
his older brother T400):
https://technoethical.com/laptops/tet-t400s
This is the ideal laptop for those who waver between the X200 and T400: it is
much lighter and slimmer than T400 but as powerful, and it has a
I've also lowered the price of the stickers a bit:
https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-stickers/
and we sell extra batteries:
https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-t400-battery/
and trisquel USB drives :)
https://minifree.org/product/usb-gnulinux-install-media/
I'm sorry that that happened with your bank. Most banks are fine though. You
could use a service like TransferWise (in fact, Minifree's newer invoices
recommend this, instead of your bank).
and openarena runs well on it, too
The graphics chipset actually performs pretty well. We also optimized it in
Libreboot; LenovoBIOS allocates 32MiB of Video RAM only.
The chipset itself supports 256MiB VRAM allocation, but factory BIOS doesn't
do it.
Libreboot does :)
In the recent Libreboot releases, based on Intel
Hi everyone,
SEe:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/libreboot-t400-minifree-reduces-price-once-again
I reduced the price even further.
Hopefully more people can afford Libreboot laptops now!
~Leah
Hi everyone,
Recently, I made this post about a heavy price cut on Minifree's Libreboot
T400 product:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/libreboot-t400-returns-minifree-trisquel-preinstalled-permanently-reduced-price
Good news!
I've decided to cut it even further.
Base price for T400 with 4GiB
By the way, I don't use Parabola myself so I can't be of much use. There are
several Parabola users in #libreboot IRC though, and swiftgeek uses Arch I
think. So you might be able to get help on things if you get stuck.
You can buy "Advanced Mini Dock" which is pretty good. We don't sell it on
Minifree, but you can find it online cheaply.
The current release of Libreboot doesn't fully support it, but the next
release will (coreboot, our upstream, and librecore, our future upstream,
added support). Namely,
Minifree uses fast shipping in Europe, probably about as fast as from
Germany. Average is about 2 day delivery time once shipped, for eastern
European countries.
I also use fast shipping for USA; 2-3 day on average once shipped. 1-day is
possible ;)
In what way do you think Conways Law is relevant (in either way) to the
current Libreboot project?
thanks :)
Lack of translations is a long-standing issue. It should probably use GNU
Gettext or similar, so that translated texts (compared to english) are
reverted back to english automatically, if translations of certain texts are
unavailable.
I'm not sure how that would be implemented in the
Hi GNUbahn,
Yes, non-techies are Libreboot's major target in the documentation. We also
want to have complete documentation, though.
Streamlining everything and simplifying is a current goal.
I ask that you contribute directly to the official Libreboot documentation to
make these
yes, those exact instructions will also work on trisquel
I've opened a new thread:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/libreboot-website-now-wiki-and-we-are-looking-documentation-contributors
This should hopefully make it clearer to people now how to contribute to the
real Libreboot site, in terms of documentation and website improvements, so
as to
Hi everyone
We recently added an "edit this page" link to every page on the Libreboot
website, which leads here:
https://libreboot.org/git.html#editing-the-website-and-documentation-wiki-style
We have recently made huge changes to the website:
* Site and documentation are now entirely
Hi GNUbahn,
To make it easier for people, we have now added the following to the
Libreboot site:
* "Edit this page" link is now added on every page automatically, to every
page on the website and documentation pages
* More useful instructions for how to contribute to the Libreboot
We used to have static HTML documentation and it was hard to send patches.
Both problems are solved.
It is now very easy to contribute to the official Libreboot documentation,
using the instructions on https://libreboot.org/git.html
The documentation is in Markdown, which is very easy to
Spread the word! :)
I'm looking to bring about a great many new Libreboot users into the
community with this new initiative (and others that I will announce in the
near future).
hi GNUbahn,
We have some pretty extensive documentation on the libreboot website and the
documentation is in Markdown now so it should be much easier to edit and
contribute to it. The documentation is in the Git repository. Instructions
for sending documentation patches:
Hi gderok,
You might also consider the Libreboot T400 from Minifree:
https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-t400/
It uses the same CPU and GPU as the X200, but has a bigger screen and better
cooling. It's currently at a special low price on Minifree.
~Leah
Heather, so there you have it. It looks like I was right... except for the
part about upgrading CPU. It seems you can use ivy CPU on sandy motherboard,
on T420 at least. not sure about in factory BIOS but maybe you could ask in
#coreboot IRC about it
What Leah said is true. Thanks, Leah!
Heather, you could consider Technoethical to get your X200T flashed, yes. I
forgot about that one.
As I said, I'm not interested in X200T but you could ship your X200T to
Technoethical for libreboot install. You'll still have to deal with customs
and so on (Technoethical is in Romania,
your existing software configuration under GNU+Linux will work just fine.
I've used KDE, GNOME, OpenBox, LXDE etc just fine on my own X60 and other
libreboot systems
for libreboot install you just need a terminal, and the libreboot utils (e.g.
flashrom)
In our shop Technoethical we sell readily available X200 Tablets with
libreboot and fully free GNU distros.
https://tehnoetic.com/laptops/tet-x200t
And we also offer the service of libreboot installation service for the
laptops we sell T500, T400, X200 Tablet, X200, and for other hardware
Hi Heather,
I kind of have no choice but to be social publicly so I just stoic it up but
yes I totally understand anxiety and all that
If you haven't already, the X60T is really easy to flash. You can it all in
software, from the distro running on it, without taking it apart:
as a rule, I don't generally take "donations" as such.
Libreboot is currently attempting to re-join the GNU project. If that is
successful, then the project might start accepting donations through the FSF.
If not, then we might set up our own non-profit organisation (not sure which
Hi Heather,
Also, there is Libiquity which is based in New Jersey, USA.
http://libiquity.com/
I'm not sure whether they would actually sell T420/X220, when and if it would
become available for Libreboot, but if you couldn't go to a workshop and
couldn't install it yourself, you might be
Hi Heather,
If X220 porting efforts in Libreboot are successful, and I then add the T420,
you might be able to get your T420 flashed for free at a workshop somewhere.
If you have something like a raspberry pi or beaglebone you could also try
flashing it yourself, you just need a clip
I'm not sure about ivybridge. I'm working on sandybridge, since the X220 is a
much more usable/popular laptop than the X230 and has more or less identical
performance.
I think swiftgeek is interested in ivy though. Contact him in the #libreboot
IRC channel on freenode
Hi Heather,
Yes, the T420 uses the same chipsets as the X220. If Libreboot is ported to
the X220, then the T420 would be trivial. I'm working on the X220 first.
~Leah
Hi everyone
I've re-added the T400 to Minifree, with Trisquel preinstalled by default as
before. This complies with the FSF's Respects Your Freedom certification.
The price is also much lower than before (it's currently cheaper than all
other Libreboot laptops sold by other companies):
@IrishUSA: Thanks for bringing the news! We've realized that it's difficult
for people to remember the spelling and type in correctly the name
"Tehnoetic". We've seen it in the Trisquel forum and other free software
forums/mailing lists many times: Technoetic, Technoethic, Technoethics :-)
I've just submitted the support request to change the forum username
Tehnoetic to Technoethical: https://trisquel.info/en/issues/22402
Any admin reading this? :-D
Libreboot will soon apply to re-join the GNU project. It is not yet certain
whether the GNU project would indeed accept Libreboot as a renewed member.
RMS of GNU and John Sullivan of the FSF have both accepted my apologies, via
private emails. With that, plus consent from Libreboot core
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