Re:Man Tries to Live an Open Source Life for a Year
by duaneb on Saturday August 11, 2012 @03:00AM
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I went OSS only for many years. It's not that hard if you use ethernet and don't need 3d acceleration. Could the average person do it? Definitely not.
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Re:Man Tries to Live an Open Source Life for a Year
by zanny on Saturday August 11, 2012 @04:53AM
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The OSS Radeon driver is more than sufficient nowadays for non-3d composting of windows and playback of video.
Intels integrated gpu driver is also really good, to the point where you can play ~5 year old games on it just fine with a high end chip.
I wonder how you would pull off OSS hard drive / ram / mobo / psu / etc. It would require that the design schematics and documentation are public. I assume many of them are, but some might not be, and it would be a pain to investigate open hardware.