Re:Libreboot: Open Letter to the Free Software Community
by abecedarius on Thursday April 06, 2017 @05:44PM
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Is there a favorite one I can buy now? Or a least unfavored?
Re:Libreboot: Open Letter to the Free Software Community
by milcron on Thursday April 06, 2017 @09:29PM
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For now I think the best completely-open device is Bunnie Huang's Novena laptop: https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena
The software and motherboard schematics are totally open. It includes an mPCIe wifi card (Ath9k) specifically to avoid binary blob firmware.
Re:Libreboot: Open Letter to the Free Software Community
by abecedarius on Thursday April 06, 2017 @10:40PM
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Thanks -- I'd heard of that but didn't realize it was still/again for sale.
Re:Libreboot: Open Letter to the Free Software Community
by timonovici on Friday April 07, 2017 @01:11AM
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Asus Chromebook C100 Flip, but with a wifi dongle - if you want something new.
If something refurbished is okay, go for a X200; they are pretty good machines. Here's the best part - a Chromebook, without the proprietary Mali drivers, it slow as a piece of shit; an X200 - I can watch a tear-free full-HD movie while compiling something in the background, with both cores at 100%.
Libiquity, Tehnoetic and Vikings still sell those laptops. Or flash one yourself, it's not that hard, and you need like.. 100$ worth of equipment.
And there's a strong security reason to do so. I am motivated to buy an Arm machine which will be soley responsible for my:
+ Email
+ Banking
+ Cryptocurrency
Because none of those take too much power, and they are all very security sensitive.