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Re: Anybody have a chromebook? Can it run Debian?



On Sat, February 2, 2013 2:17 pm, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> On Sb, 02 feb 13, 03:28:39, Weaver wrote:
>>>> Samsung are having serious firmware problems right now.
>>>> Why not go for hardware that is specifically designed for Linux and
>>>> remove any potential problems completely?
>
> This may be a silly question, but how exactly does one design a
> general-purpose computer specifically to support Linux?  That seems just
> a bit backwards if you ask me.
>
> Now, if you were to say: go for hardware for which hardware-specific
> drivers already exist, that's another story.

And I can't see the difference.
Perhaps they also write drivers?
Regards,

Weaver

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