Librem - open source, privacy philosophy, Linux laptop

Discussion in 'Laptops & Notebooks' started by Veeshush, Feb 2, 2015.

  1. Veeshush

    Veeshush Maha Guru

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    https://www.crowdsupply.com/purism/librem-laptop

    Already got funded, I just wanted to share it with you guys. Looks like a solid laptop to me.
     
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    lucidus Ancient Guru

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    Barely anything about the company in the kickstarter page except for the founder who's a software guy. No apparent hardware or manufacturing experience or other sources of funding. I hope the backers get whatever they've paid for. Rather just install mint or whatever Stallman is using if FOSS is that important.
     
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    Right, without the hardware open it'd be just another laptop with a Linux distro on it. However the hardware that requires proprietary blobs and the lack of a open BIOS is what other laptops offer- I'm optimistic it might be a change.
     

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