I got a Thinkpad X60s off ebay for $65, installed libreboot, Trisquel and a
120gb ssd. Now it runs flawlessly. Obviously Im not going to be able to play
intensive games on it, but for a laptop doing laptop things, I couldn't be
happier.
Cool.
Maybe the best we can do here if someone who feels nice is do an 'idiots how
too' in detail on a special page. Listing a few site to encourage movement
towards 'Libreboot'. I know I am keen to have a go but I do not feel
confident or know my Lenovo T61 will do it.
Maybe I think my
Have you tried playing games like SuperTuxKart (max settings) on it? How well
does it handle that kind of graphics?
I should mention, I am not very technically knowledgeable on this. I do not
know if that will be held against me on this forum. But I have tried to read
and grasp about the free hardware matter. I came to the conclusion that
Stallman is right.
Freedom is what Trisquel and the Free
Sorry about the endorsement misconception- I meant that it came with 100%
free software preinstalled, a la the /links/companies URL.
So you described 3 cases:
1) Ubuntu without libreboot
2) Trisquel without libreboot
3) Trisquel with libreboot
And your goal is to resist surveillance.
Using 2 instead of 1 will raise the difficulty to get in your computer, and
that raise in difficulty might be enough or not, depending on
I'll provide a dissenting voice and say that infact you should install
libreboot. I have a fairly rudementry understanding of GNU/Linux compared to
many others on this forum as evident by my recent post:
http://trisquel.info/en/forum/help-installing-libreboot-and-dependencies
However,
I agree the TPM is not a problem. Compiling is the general process of turning
human readable source code into a machine readable binary. This is also
called building.
On 09.09.2014 05:53, jadonpleves...@mail.com wrote:
ThinkPenguin.com has some great free software-friendly computers
I can't help notice again the -friendly attribute which is used to avoid
the freedom issues that the -respecting hardware solve.
(FSF endorses ThinkPenguin, anyway)
FSF
I have a T60 and a T61 Lenovo. I think when the release has happened I will
have a go, maybe. I would just like to be clean. Maybe it wil only work on
the T60. Not sure.
Thanks for your note I find it encouraging.
Thank you for the answers.
I should mention, I am not very technically knowledgeable on this. I do not
know if that will be held against me on this forum. But I have tried to read
and grasp about the free hardware matter. I came to the conclusion that
Stallman is right.
I watched a vidoe
What is trisquel without http://libreboot.org/?
I have not used trisquel. I have tested it on vm. I have used ubuntu since
about 10.04, I know about the non free software problematics as forwarded by
Stallman. Stallman has only certified the gluglug computer.
I mainly want a free software
Most users do not change boot firmware of their computers. Trisquel is
better for their freedom and privacy than Ubuntu.
TPM is just mostly useless, it has no security issues. There are other
worse components, like Management Engine that on all recent Intel
chipsets (optional since i965,
Wow Thanks for you intel.
I suppose for us romantics it would be nice to have a point and click get off
my PC button to a firmware Bios.
Maybe one day but not today.
I wouldn't reccomend using Libreboot- unless you know what you're doing,
bricking is certainly possible. I'd say that you should install Trisquel, and
this is as close to freedom as you can get on that computer.
ThinkPenguin.com has some great free software-friendly computers (FSF
endorses
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