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

From: Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net>
Date: Sun Oct 04 2015 - 12:02:22 AKDT

On Monday 28 September 2015 11:09:42 am Christopher Howard wrote:
> It says "that all or most T400 laptops are compatible". No idea if
> they mean the whole T400 series or just a T400 model.
>
> On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 10:40:38 -0800
>
> Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org> wrote:
> > 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

I have a T430 for work. Works with Debian.

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Greg M
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