[aklug] Re: thinkpenguin-style laptop but at reasonable price?

From: Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org>
Date: Mon Sep 28 2015 - 10:40:38 AKDT

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Christopher Howard <ch.howard@zoho.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 09:00:15 -0800
> "Joshua J. Kugler" <joshua@eeinternet.com> wrote:
>
> > I would do research and see if any of the models at Walmart would be
> > usable with Linux. Not sure if they would be binary-blob-free,
> > though.
> >
> > j
> >
>
> Thanks, though, I think we are going to go with a refurbished ThinkPad
> T430. Owing to it's former popularity, it has pretty thorough
> Gnu/Linux driver coverage.
>

Given repeated Lenovo shenanigans, pick a model supported by the libreboot
project.

http://www.libreboot.org/docs/hcl/index.html#supported_list

Royce

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