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Garrett: More in the series of bizarre UEFI bugs

Posted Nov 16, 2012 10:39 UTC (Fri) by Priscus (subscriber, #72409)
In reply to: Garrett: More in the series of bizarre UEFI bugs by PaulWay
Parent article: Garrett: More in the series of bizarre UEFI bugs

I looked at zaReason laptops some years back: it was Poulsbo for netbooks and nVidia for larger laptops. Not exactly the great Linux experience I heard so much about.
Lately, they sell you less Poulsbo, and more Optimus instead. Great...

I must confess I have been most bitterly disappointed in these so-called Linus-friendly laptops.
Where are the decent, FLOSS-friendly machines (preferably not crapola left-over hardware from 5 years ago)?

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Linux friendly hardware vendors

Posted Nov 16, 2012 17:06 UTC (Fri) by scottt (subscriber, #5028) [Link]

Think Penguin claims to choose their components very carefully to only use chipsets supported by the mainline kernel. Unfortunately their laptop and desktop computers seems very outdated now.

Garrett: More in the series of bizarre UEFI bugs

Posted Nov 16, 2012 17:49 UTC (Fri) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877) [Link]

I had a ZaReason TerraHD, and it was stock Atom+intel graphics, not Poulsbo at all. The luggable laptop has nvidia; there rest are Intel: http://zareason.com/shop/Laptops/

> I looked at zaReason laptops some years back

So you didn't bother to look it up (takes about 30 seconds to do the same overview I did above) and instead went on vague, perhaps entirely incorrect memories from "some years back" and then compounded it with

> Lately, they sell you less Poulsbo, and more Optimus instead. Great...

completely incorrect and uninformed accusations.

> I must confess I have been most bitterly disappointed in these so-called Linus-friendly laptops.

They're not "linus-friendly" [sic]. They're linux pre-installed. You buy it, boot it up, enter in your new username and set your time zone and bob's your uncle.

This post brought to you by the System76 Gazelle I typed it on.

Garrett: More in the series of bizarre UEFI bugs

Posted Nov 18, 2012 16:59 UTC (Sun) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link]

ZaReason did sell a netbook with poulsbo graphics for some time (back when that was more or less the only option outside the underclocked Celeron with a very hot and power-draining i945 IGP).