[lug] Linux laptop

[David L. Willson]

I'm confident that the KFocus has the proprietary Nvidia driver, at least. So far, I've been able to switch between the libre and non-free Nvidia drivers without too much trouble.But, if you really want a laptop with all software libre, check out [Purism](https://puri.sm/).And soon, there should be [ThinkPads with Fedora fresh from Lenovo](https://fedoramagazine.org/coming-soon-fedora-on-lenovo-laptops/), which, if I'm reading correctly, will be specifically designed not to need proprietary drivers.

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From: Stephen Queen <svqueen at gmail.com> 
Date: 4/29/20  5:56 AM  (GMT-07:00) 
To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List" <lug at lug.boulder.co.us> 
Subject: Re: [lug] Linux laptop 

I'm a free software kind of guy. When I say free I mean as in liberty not as in beer. At one time in the early 2000's I bought a System76 desktop thinking because it came with a Linux distribution on it, that it had all free software. The distribution it came with was Ubuntu. It turned out at that time that Ubuntu used proprietary drivers. When I tried to install other distributions on this machine it failed because they did not use proprietary drivers. I also struggled with compiling my own kernel. Remember when we all use to do that. I can't remember if I solved those issues or not. I could not determine with a quick look if kfocus uses proprietary drivers or not. Does anyone know off hand?On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 8:06 PM David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu> wrote:
    
I have a System76 Oryx Pro 2 that buries every other machine I have. Fast and reliable.But, I lust after the KFocus. If I can just get my boss to buy it... I mean, I need it for work. This old computer of mine just doesn't cut it anymore. ;-)-------- Original message --------From: John Karns <johnkarns at gmail.com> Date: 4/28/20  7:26 PM  (GMT-07:00) To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List" <lug at lug.boulder.co.us> Subject: Re: [lug] Linux laptop A bit off point, perhaps - Call me old fashioned, but anyone elseprefer something older like one of the higher end (for its time)legacy Dells? Probably isn't quite as fast as these models, but isfine for casual use, and at least it has a swappable DVD / 2nd HDDbay, is dockable, shielded with a metal plate bottom, and has portsfor legacy peripherals! And fitting these dinosaurs with a SDD goes agood way toward shortening the performance gap, IMO. Close enough forme, anyway!It is nice to see that Linux laptops are still showing up in themarketplace, though!==JohnOn Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 10:42 AM Davide Del Vento<davide.del.vento at gmail.com> wrote:>> I've just learned about https://kfocus.org/ which is really interesting if you want/need a high end Linux laptop.> Perhaps most of you already knew it, but since I didn't and hadn't seen it here, I'm rectifying the latter.>> Happy Monday!> _______________________________________________> Web Page:  http://lug.boulder.co.us> Mailing List: http://lists.lug.boulder.co.us/mailman/listinfo/lug> Join us on IRC: irc.hackingsociety.org port=6667 channel=#hackingsociety_______________________________________________Web Page:  http://lug.boulder.co.usMailing List: http://lists.lug.boulder.co.us/mailman/listinfo/lugJoin us on IRC: irc.hackingsociety.org port=6667 channel=#hackingsociety_______________________________________________
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