(http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/131)
===== Willing to buy a high-end, free-software-only laptop? With projects like Gobuntu and gNewSense aiming to provide a platform that is zealous about free software, the obvious question is "where can I run it?". And right now, as far as laptops go, there are no good answers. Pretty much any laptop you can buy today needs some sort of non-free bits to make the most of its hardware, putting you in the tricky position of having to choose between hardware usefulness and software freedom. And boy, do we know about that choice in Ubuntu! [...] So I've setup a mailing list over here: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/free-software-laptop Please go ahead and join that list if you think you would seriously consider buying a laptop that was powerful and designed specifically to be free-software friendly. [...] I've also started to sketch out the components and specifications for a laptop that would meet these requirements here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreeSoftwareLaptop It will take a lot of committed buyers to move from concept to execution but if we can pull it off it will have an excellent ripple effect in the PC hardware industry. Make yourself heard! ===== -- Soh Kam Yung my Google Reader Shared links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/16851815156817689753) my delicious links: (http://del.icio.us/SohKamYung) my simpy links: (http://www.simpy.com/user/kysoh/links) _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
