<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 29/04/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Morten Juhl Johansen</b> <<a href="mailto:mjj@syntaktisk.dk">mjj@syntaktisk.dk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Wayne Moore wrote:<br>> Hi All,<br>><br>> I was thinking that it might be very useful to have the site list some<br>> systems, laptops and/or desktop, configurations that will work with 100%<br>> free software. The problem I often run into is that many people want to
<br>> run GNU/Linux but are afraid that some of the hardware they choose might<br>> not work. For example, for someone wanting to buy a new machine, it<br>> would be great to say go buy one of these [on the list], and your video
<br>> card / webcam / etc, will just work. Does anyone know of any vendor's<br>> prebuilt systems ( e.g. Dell / HP / IBM) that would work? Otherwise, a<br>> list of components to build your own desktops would be a good start.
<br>><br>> I stress that these must work with _only_ free software, as there are<br>> many hardware configurations out there that would work well, but _only_<br>> with non-free parts, drivers / firmware / etc.
<br>><br>> Just a thought, this is something that in my experience has hindered<br>> people adopting GNU/Linux as an OS. These are people that are in fact<br>> willing to try it out, but want to be sure they're not getting hardware
<br>> that they cannot use - which eventually drives them back to a<br>> proprietary OS.<br>><br>> Kind Regards,<br>> Wayne<br><br>There is the list at <a href="http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw">http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw
</a> - is it not<br>adequate? Do you suggest something more specific?<br><br>-mjjohansen</blockquote><div><br>I am aware of that list, thanks. While that does help when shopping
for components to build your own system, I think it would be very
useful to know if there are any "off-the-shelf" systems that the big
(or small) hardware vendors sell, that would work with 100% free
software - this would help those that cannot build their own systems.<br> </div><br></div>