Op 10-08-12 13:21, Bryan Baldwin schreef: > On 08/10/2012 11:15 PM, Paul van der Vlis wrote: >> I know all about it, I sell computers with Debian pre-installed. >> And I buy the hardware for it. And what I say: we need a >> manufacturer who would make a "free" line. > > Spin off: If there is not already someone out there right now doing > it, lets get some people who are interested to sit down, identify the > components that make up a box, and reckon the available hardware for > each component that can run on 100% free software.
At the moment everything is integrated in the mainboard. You would have to make a mainboard to get something with a good price. On most actual mainboards you cannot use a free bios or free firmware for the components (and some components needs nonfree drivers to do everything they can, e.g. Nvidia). I expect making a mainboard will cost a lot of money. And think about laptops in many sizes, etc... But I am interested, please contact me. We need people with good connections in the hardware world. And we need good fund-rising and selling ideas (maybe using a funding platform like kickstarter?). It's interesting to see what Lemote is doing (with money from the Chinese government). They have some completely free machines, with a MIPS processor and Debian pre-installed. But I am afraid you will miss functionallity with MIPS, e.g. flash, wine, kvm. Not sure what more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemote OLPC is doing interesting things with hardware: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child With regards, Paul van der Vlis. -- Paul van der Vlis Linux systeembeheer, Groningen http://www.vandervlis.nl _______________________________________________ Fsf-collab-discuss mailing list Fsf-collab-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/fsf-collab-discuss