Re: [Trisquel-users] ASUS Chromebook C201 now supported in libreboot - ARM CPU

[tobias]

I recenty baught a Libreboot X200 from Minifree, because I wan't to stop  
using proprietery software on the long term.
When I baught my old laptop from Thinkpenguin two years ago, I asked if  
coreboot could run on these laptops. Chris told me about the non-free BIOS  
that would be hard to replace, but he did not tell me about the ME that is  
impossible to replace. One or two month later I heard about libreboot and the  
Thinkpad X60 that Richard Stallman uses. However I still use my old laptop  
from Thinkpenguin, mostly for reverse engineering of proprietery programs.

Recently I heard about Purism, and I decided that I would never buy a Librem  
until their Librem gets the Respects Your Freedom hardware product  
certification. This is impossible with their current design, but it might be  
possible with the next design if the stop using Intel hardware. There are may  
other architectures and processor vendors that one can choose instead. Debian  
supports many of them, including PowerPC and ARM. I think that Trisquel  
should get ported to ARM and some other architectures, therefore I started  
porting Trisquel to ARM. There is also a PowerPC notebook project  
http://www.powerpc-notebook.org/en/ which claims to respect the users  
freedom, but without a free distribution this will be impossible.