On the "free and open" front, their "B-29 Superfortress" linux desktop only has options for Nvidia graphics cards. Would have been nice to see some AMD options in support for their open source work.
The "free and open" part is lying for the sake of PR.
Re:Station X Linux Machines
by tankenmate on Thursday November 23, 2017 @08:20AM
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To quote Fawlty Towers, "Don't mention the graphics card!"
GPUs seem to be the only remaining issue with OEM Linux laptops. I was almost ready to buy a Purism Librem last year after the sad MBP announcements, but I got cold feet because of that. I wish someone had the money to pay one of these companies to polish linux drivers and ship some decent GPUs.
Re:Station X Linux Machines
by tankenmate on Thursday November 23, 2017 @11:04AM
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Well most Radeon cards work great with open source drivers, there is still the issue of closed source firmware however. But at least now the kernel drivers (kms, drm) are open source, the GL drivers (mesa) are open as well for Radeon. For some Radeon cards they perform better using the open source drivers than they do with the closed source ones.
Does that mean they have a disabled/cleaned ME like the purism machines? Or what does "free and open" mean in this case?