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Hello,
Recently when I looked at Crowdsupply, I found out about the Librem 15, which is a Free/Libre and Open Source Laptop That Respects Your Essential Freedoms.
Tobias Platen
A free laptop, yes please! ☺
Just kidding and pointing out that I don't understand what you mean by an “free/libre open source laptop”
Is it a laptop that only comes with free software, or is the hardware full specificiation also published, etc?
Best,
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It should have a free BIOS, and promotes freedom. http://puri.sm/
On 11/23/2014 06:35 PM, Hugo Roy wrote:
A free laptop, yes please! ☺
Just kidding and pointing out that I don't understand what you mean by an “free/libre open source laptop”
Is it a laptop that only comes with free software, or is the hardware full specificiation also published, etc?
Best,
On Sun, 2014-11-23 at 18:42 +0100, Tobias Platen wrote:
It should have a free BIOS, and promotes freedom. http://puri.sm/
Their site, OTOH doesn't seem to be much respectful of privacy, causing your browser to contact 7 other websites, some of which owned by well known data hoarders, that like to know what websites you look at...
Without privacy there is no freedom.
Simo.
On 11/23/2014 06:35 PM, Hugo Roy wrote:
A free laptop, yes please! ☺
Just kidding and pointing out that I don't understand what you mean by an “free/libre open source laptop”
Is it a laptop that only comes with free software, or is the hardware full specificiation also published, etc?
Best,
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On Sun, 2014-11-23 at 18:42 +0100, Tobias Platen wrote:
It should have a free BIOS, and promotes freedom. http://puri.sm/
Also unlikely to have a free BIOS with an nVidia card on board ...
Simo.
I'm not currently in the market for a new laptop, but to me it seems to be a great offer. It is a usable (and sexy) laptop designed to support free software, despite not being free hardware. Ideally this would merge with free hardware efforts like the Novena laptop [1] or the EOMA68 CPU boards [2,3] to further free up the laptop as a computer segment. At the very least it is supporting a company focussed at free software.
The Purism blog offers more information: http://puri.sm/posts/
Nico
[1] https://www.crowdsupply.com/kosagi/novena-open-laptop [2] https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop [3] http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/micro_desktop/news/
Hello all,
Since the original email by Tobias the Librem 15 has had some updates [1] and will now feature the Intel Iris Pro Graphics instead of the NVIDIA GPU, it will offer more memory and a higher screen size.
Also there was an interview with the founder Todd Weaver in the Linux Unplugged podcast [2].
[1] https://www.crowdsupply.com/purism/librem-laptop/updates [2] http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/72852/perfect-linux-laptop-lup-69/
Kind regards, Nico Rikken
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Hi Fellows,
Since the original email by Tobias the Librem 15 has had some updates [1] and will now feature the Intel Iris Pro Graphics instead of the NVIDIA GPU, it will offer more memory and a higher screen size.
Also there was an interview with the founder Todd Weaver in the Linux Unplugged podcast [2].
As a Free Software user, it appears to me there are two aproaches happening at this time: 1. Building Open Hardware with Free Software. Because of the limited number of to be sold articles, they come at a premium price. (If they don't come at a premium price, being buggy can be a "feature"). The premium price tag makes it nice for the affluent among us, but does not help with more adoption of Open Hardware and Free Software for the rest of us. 2. Reinventing back existing hardware, like Coreboot and Replicant, do help with the adoption of Free Software, but they have the disadvantages that developers walk behind existing hardware and buyers still finance non-free software development.
Best Regards, - -- André Ockers Fellow, Free Software Foundation Europe
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On 09/12/14 15:54, André Ockers wrote:
As a Free Software user, it appears to me there are two aproaches happening at this time:
There are some projects which sell premium hardware with Free Software pre-installed at a reasonable price. Which is to say expensive hardware at a reasonable price with Free Software / hardware included. I'd put the Librem in that category. Compared to a Dell XPS 15 9530, the hardware for the price isn't bad.
Depending on whether you consider Android AOSP / Cyanogen Free then there are also mass market products mobile from independent manufacturers, including OnePlusOne and Fairphone.
Best,
Sam.