Re: Microsoft Signature PC Requirements Now Blocks Linux Installation

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On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Merlin Büge <toni@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> But note that all that is not open source hardware (as mentioned above).
> Also I'm not getting the point in buying such hardware -- there is some linux
> distribution preinstalled, but that's it I guess. Or am I missing something?
>

The hardware might be chosen so that it works well with linux. If you're lucky.
Other than that, I find the term open source hardware was probably
misused in the first place in this thread, as the topic as I
understood it was "hardware for use with free software".

> If you want open source hardware, I recommend looking at
> - the EOMA68 project
> - Olimex
> - upcoming Talos Workstation by Raptor Engineering
> - maybe devices supported by libreboot
>

Whoever makes a start with the wiki page will likely refer to this
thread as a reference.

cheers!
mar77i




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