> > My primary concern now is the wireless drivers.
>
> http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/net/wireless/cards.html
I am familiar with this page.
Good luck trying to find an actual laptop that comes with one of those
cards.
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> My primary concern now is the wireless drivers.
http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/net/wireless/cards.html
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Thanks OK Amir !
Lots of us are equally curious. With the latest forays into cross-licensing
and other such ilk it would seem apparent that "proprietary drivers" will
be ground into dust. There are many "free" operating systems, most will just
"hack' the drivers, or come up with a workaround. The
Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
> On 05/07/07, Mark Shuttleworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Even a really good vendor like Intel still has the odd propietary blob
>> (on the way out, but still there).
>>
>
> Sorry to wander further off-topic, but this really intrigued me:
>
> What do you mean b
On 05/07/07, Mark Shuttleworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Even a really good vendor like Intel still has the odd propietary blob
> (on the way out, but still there).
Sorry to wander further off-topic, but this really intrigued me:
What do you mean by "on the way out"? My primary concern now is
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Paul Flint wrote:
Note the removal of extra "certify" in first line of message...
>
> Dear Mark,
>
> How about having a division of Canonical that certifies hardware
> and supporting driver software as "Ubuntu Compliant"? This could be a
> supportable enterprise. Fees paid
Dear Mark,
How about having a division of Canonical certify that certifies hardware
and supporting driver software as "Ubuntu Compliant"? This could be a
supportable enterprise. Fees paid by manufacturers to allow them to
display the "Certified Ubuntu" product logo on their equipment might pa
Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
> What i would be happy to see is a website with a directory of laptops,
> such as the www.dpreview.com directory of digital cameras, where i can
> find a laptop according to its parts and EASILY filter out the non-free
> ones. It's really weird that in 2007 i couldn't find s
Mark - thanks for the reply!
Your suggestion may work, and i may try it, but even i am embarrassed by
it; note - i want to know that the system is free *before* i buy it.
Theoretically i can pop a live CD in the store, but it is embarrassing
and time-consuming. Being able to prepare for this befor
It's definitely important to be able to know if a device will work with
free software drivers only. I think the radically-free Live CD would be
one way to do it. Another might be if we build this information into the
hardware device manager... perhaps just booting normal Ubuntu and
running the res
Ubuntu is both a popular distribution and one that is relatively purist
about Free Software.
Despite that, i couldn't find an *easy* way on any Ubuntu-related
website, or anywhere on the web, to test whether a computer will work
with Ubuntu without the need to use restricted drivers and firmware
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