Users need help choosing their computers [LWN.net]

Users need help choosing their computers

Posted Nov 16, 2006 6:34 UTC (Thu) by tnoo (subscriber, #20427)
In reply to: Users need help choosing their computers by JoeBuck
Parent article: Resisting the binary blob

We desperately need a certificate "Linux ready" for hardware that is
fully supported and has vendor-specs available. Some organization (maybe
OSDL) would be the clearinghouse and publish the results of tests. If a
company sells a product that is "Linux ready" they could pay a moderate
fee to advertise with the Linux Logo on their product.

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YES! Users need help choosing their computers

Posted Nov 16, 2006 16:11 UTC (Thu) by dwheeler (subscriber, #1216) [Link]

ABSOLUTELY. I want to buy computers which work well with 100% OSS drivers, and it's incredibly hard to do, even with a lot of knowledge. This needs to be REALLY easy, instead.