laptops sold with free software

Michael Kesper mkesper at schokokeks.org
Tue Jul 9 14:11:16 UTC 2013


Hi,

Am 2013-07-09 15:58, schrieb Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos:
> The situation in Greece has pretty much changed the market in that
> aspect. From a very quick calculation it seems that around 1/3 of the
> laptops in a popular shop in Greece [0] are now sold either with some
> distribution of Linux or FreeDOS preinstalled. I don't know how much
> they actually sell, but before 2010 it was almost impossible to find
> such a laptop.

Are there Linux user groups rising?
I hope not all of those Laptops get infected with a dubious windows
license. :)

Another supported alternative seems to be chromebooks which are even for
a good part supported by Coreboot:
http://www.coreboot.org/Chromebooks

Best wishes
Michael




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