2013/12/27 Sam Geeraerts <sam...@elmundolibre.be> > Op Fri, 27 Dec 2013 02:57:59 -0200 > schreef Guilherme Vieira <super.driver....@gmail.com>: > > > A community that will pick, say, Xorg, and say "okay, we will make > > this work on such and such and such platforms, and it will be > > guaranteed to work and be tested on those platforms, and you will be > > allowed to change such and such configuration parameters and that's > > it." Such configuration parameters should be grandma-friendly, be > > incapable of bricking the graphical interface, and have a graphical > > interface to tweak them. It shall be called Xorg-unf**ked or > > Xorg-that-actually-works. > > I think good (or at least publicly available) hardware specs would go a > long way in solving graphics problems. If you want to spend money, give > it to projects that create hardware with freedom/openness as a core > value [1]. >
I'd like to add that the FSF has a page with certified hardware that Respects Your Freedom [11]. Recently, some laptops with Coreboot were added to the list [12]. It could be a good reference when buying new hardware that works well with free distributions. [11] http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-your-freedom [12] http://www.fsf.org/news/gluglug-x60-laptop-now-certified-to-respect-your-freedom -- Luis Felipe López Acevedo http://sirgazil.bitbucket.org/
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