Re: [libreplanet-discuss] How do you get a new desktop computer fitting FSF LibrePlanet principles?...

[Ben Gailly]

I think that the most useful will be to buy a compliant laptop (as those
sell buy Thinkpenguin such as Lenovo Thinkpad T60 or T400), buy a
compliant free-software wireless card (such as AR7291) for laptop and
make a software flash with Libreboot...

And if you install on top of it Trisquel, Gnewsense, Uruk or Parabola,
it will disable the blobs in the hardware..

It's possible (that's what I will do when I will have the fund to do
it..) and not so complicated..


On 10/02/2017 09:23 PM, Félicien Pillot wrote:
> Le Mon, 02 Oct 2017 14:36:05 -0400,
> Don Saklad <dsaklad@gnu.org> a écrit :
>
>> How do you get a new desktop computer fitting FSF LibrePlanet
>> principles?... it's easier to get an iMac, for many folks it's too
>> challenging to get a desktop fitting the Free Software Foundation
>> LibrePlanet principles.
>>
>> Usability and navigability of information is difficult, for example at
>> https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw
>>
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> That is a really good question, which I am asking since a couple of
> days. The better I could find are those selled by ThinkPenguin [0], but
> they do not use LibreBoot and we don't know (at least I don't know) if
> there are bad backdoors in their hardware.
> There is also the EOMA68 micro-desktop [1], but I don't know if/when/how
> we can buy it, and if/how it is powerful, and if it uses LibreBoot.
>
> Unfortunately, it seems to me that at the moment, the best we can do is
> to build our own computer, using pieces of fsf-recommanded
> libre-friendly hardware. But we (at least I) don't necessarily have the
> time nor the skills to do that.
> Good luck !
>
> [0] https://www.thinkpenguin.com/catalog/desktop-computers-gnu-linux
> [1] https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop
>
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