Ubuntu Malaysia LoCo Team

  1. Bug #1 (liberation)
  2. Comment #385

Comment 385 for bug 1

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Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) wrote : Re: [Bug 1] suggested patch - search engine for "free hardware" systems

Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
> What i would be happy to see is a website with a directory of laptops,
> such as the www.dpreview.com directory of digital cameras, where i can
> find a laptop according to its parts and EASILY filter out the non-free
> ones. It's really weird that in 2007 i couldn't find such a website, and
> i searched for a few days.
>
 That is because, right now, I don't think you could find such a laptop :-(

Even a really good vendor like Intel still has the odd propietary blob
(on the way out, but still there). Those are improving, but right now
it's hard to see how one could recommend any laptop as being entirely
free-software-enabled.

Mark