The only laptop which has earned the FSF's Respects Your Freedom endorsement
is from gluglug.
https://fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-* -freedom
* http://shop.gluglug.org.uk/
I'm pretty sure any of the free distros can do virtual terminal switching
well.
I think the best combination for you could be ThinkPad X60 w. Trisquel
GNU/Linux, but you can also look at some other choices. On the laptop side,
look for the coreboot supported models, like the Lenovo X201, or some Google
Chromebooks (e.g. the HP Chromebook 14).
As for the GNU/Linux
Debian GNU/Linux, which is completely free, except...
Read http://jxself.org/debian-doubletalk.shtml
It's like saying You get a free gift when you buy...
I work most of the time in text terminals, with an editor session (nano) in
one and my lab control program, experix, in another, and I switch back and
forth with the alt-F# keys. So that switching has to be efficient and
reliable, and I want the machine to boot up in text mode. experix uses
What laptop are you talking about? A few different laptops I can think of are
shipped with Trisquel.
In any case, you can set up a Trisquel installation however you want with net
install, including making it text-mode by default. Since Trisquel includes no
non-free blobs, any other
