[Libreplanet-ca-qc] Fwd: Gluglug X60 Laptop now certified to Respect Your Freedom

[Fabián Rodríguez]

Il s'agît d'un ordinateur qui n'est pas neuf/récent, mais c'est
intéressant de pouvoir l'acheter sans faire les manipulations nécessaires.

En ce moment j'expérimente une configuration semblable (Coreboot) sur un
Chromebook.

F.

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Sujet:  Gluglug X60 Laptop now certified to Respect Your Freedom
Date :  Thu, 19 Dec 2013 17:17:22 -0500
De :    Free Software Foundation <address@hidden>
Répondre à :    Free Software Foundation <address@hidden>
Pour :  Fabian Rodriguez <~~~>



"Finally there is a free software laptop that respects your freedom as
it comes from the store," Richard M. Stallman.

We don't usually send press release messages to this list, but this is a
big announcement!

If you want to see even more hardware certified in 2014, please help us
reach our $450k winter fundraising goal with a $20 donation
<https://u.fsf.org/ryf2013>.


    Gluglug X60 Laptop now certified to Respect Your Freedom

Gluglug X60

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Thursday, December 19, 2013 -- The Free
Software Foundation (FSF) today awarded Respects Your Freedom (RYF)
certification to Gluglug X60 laptops. The RYF certification mark means
that the product meets the FSF's standards in regard to users' freedom,
control over the product, and privacy. This is the first laptop to
receive RYF certification from the FSF.

It can be purchased from http://shop.gluglug.org.uk.

The FSF has had a call out for a laptop sold with a free OS and free
boot system <https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html> since 2005.
Today it announced that the call has been met.

"Finally there is a free software laptop that respects your freedom as
it comes from the store," stated Richard M. Stallman, founder and
president of the FSF.

The boot programs (such as a BIOS) run when a computer is turned on and
their primary purpose is to initialize the hardware before loading the
operating system. Computer makers not only install nonfree boot
programs, but they also have made it notoriously difficult for free
software developers to have access to the necessary hardware
specifications and information needed to produce free software replacements.

When a user purchases a product that bears the Respects Your Freedom
certification mark, they can be confident they are recieving a product
that comes with a free boot program and OS, as well as documentation
under free licenses, multimedia unencumbered by proprietary formats, and
the assurance it is not known to contain any backdoors and is not
designed to share users' information without their knowledge (e.g. spyware).

"This announcement comes at a time when people have a heightened concern
over controlling their data and securing their communication.
Proprietary software is by nature fundamentally insecure, because it
uses both force of law and technological measures to prohibit a user
from controlling and securing her own computer. This new complete system
runs on free software and is backed by the FSF's commitment to do our
best at ensuring respect for your freedom and privacy," said FSF
executive director John Sullivan.

The Gluglug X60 laptops are refurbished models of Lenovo's ThinkPad®^†
X60. Gluglug has updated the computer by adding a modern wifi chipset,
replacing the proprietary BIOS with a free software boot system made by
modifying Coreboot to remove all proprietary microcode and proprietary
blobs, and replacing the proprietary Microsoft Windows OS with the
FSF-endorsed, Trisquel GNU/Linux <https://trisquel.info> OS.

"The Gluglug X60 laptop is a major victory for computer users and
supporters of the /Free BIOS/ campaign. Not only has Gluglug produced a
100% free version of Coreboot that carries freedom to each user, but it
has made it easy and fun to install updates, which in my experience,
make real and noticeable improvements to the operation of the laptop. I
also found that despite the hardware being a few years old, the Gluglug
X60 remains a durable machine that is more than capable of running
modern GNU/Linux distro," added Joshua Gay, the licensing & compliance
manager who heads-up the FSF's RYF certification program.

Francis Rowe of Gluglug issued the following statement:

    Gluglug is very proud to have achieved RYF certification and we will
    always try to exceed the requirements. The mission of Gluglug is to
    promote free software in a practical way by making it easy to find a
    system built for total freedom. With the X60 laptops sold through
    the site you get everything: free boot program, free operating
    system, free drivers, free applications. The machines also come
    pre-fitted with a new 802.11n wireless card that is fully compatible
    with free software.

    The machines come fully loaded with Trisquel GNU/Linux, and they can
    also have gNewSense <http://www.gnewsense.org> or Parabola GNU/Linux
    <http://parabolagnulinux.org> installed on request. With the Gluglug
    X60, you get full source code for all of the tools used to create
    the boot program, plus documentation. If you want to hack your
    machine, you can. That's really the whole concept.

    You also get updates, so when the Gluglug makes a substantial change
    to the firmware it ships, you will receive a copy of it along with
    documentation for how to flash it and tweak it to your needs.

    A project like this is especially important in this day and age when
    more and more devices are becoming locked down with with things like
    Restricted Boot
    <https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot>, and
    containing hardware-based backdoors. The Gluglug provides an opt-out
    for that kind of mistreatment.

To learn more about the Respects Your Freedom hardware certification,
including details on the certification of the Gluglug X60 laptops, as
well as information on source code for the device, visit
https://www.fsf.org/ryf. Hardware sellers interested in applying for
certification can consult criteria at
https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/criteria.

For those needing to purchase other hardware, the FSF recommends the
h-node.org <http://h-node.org> database, as well as direct users toward
hardware sellers that offer laptops with GNU/Linux preinstalled. The FSF
is also asking supporters to write to Intel
<https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html> asking for the company to
ship laptops with a free boot system to begin with, so that users can
buy brand new freedom-respecting hardware in the future.


      About the Free Software Foundation

The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting
computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute
computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as
in freedom) software -- particularly the GNU operating system and its
GNU/Linux variants -- and free documentation for free software. The FSF
also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of
freedom in the use of software, and its Web sites, located at fsf.org
and gnu.org, are an important source of information about GNU/Linux.
Donations to support the FSF's work can be made at
https://donate.fsf.org. Its headquarters are in Boston, MA, USA.


      About Gluglug

The Gluglug is a Canvey Island, Essex, UK based company dedicated to
Free Software. We sell computers that are made to respect the freedom of
users to study and hack their machine. Visit http://shop.gluglug.org.uk.


      Media Contacts

Joshua Gay
Licensing & Compliance Manager
Free Software Foundation
+1 (617) 542 5942
address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>

Francis Rowe
Founder & CEO
Gluglug
address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>

^† ThinkPad is a registered trademark of Lenovo.

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