Re: On Open Source Support of hardware (was: Re: Best Linux Laptop)
According to Rog?rio Brito,
> On Mar 19 2006, Manaen Schlabach wrote:
> > You might want to consider walking into the store with a Knoppix boot
> > CD/DVD and booting the laptop with Knoppix. If it works you know the
> > hardware will be supported by Linux.
>
> And if you are concerned with hardware that works with Free Software, be
> careful to see if the CD/DVD hasn't loaded any non-free software, like
> ndiswrapper or such other evil things.
>
> Please, since you are "voting with your wallet" and you are in a
> position to choose what to use, don't support those that make the life
> of Free Software developers harder.
I am ashamed to admit that I voted for Dell the last time
around, but they were (sadly) the only ones with the
1920x1280 screen. In my book, the only real feature that
counts on a laptop is screen. Sadly, I am using nonfree
video (nvidia driver) and network. But if you are satisfied
with conventional displays, by all means, vote with your wallet
for hardware vendors that are FOSS-friendly.
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