Binary-only modules not to be banned - this time

Posted Dec 15, 2006 11:25 UTC (Fri) by drag (guest, #31333)
In reply to: Binary-only modules not to be banned - this time by Arker
Parent article: Binary-only modules not to be banned - this time

I would hazard a guess that Quantas would, or maybe Asus.

I haven't owned one, but they are pretty cool abotu things in interviews that I've heard. Even though they ship nvidia binaries I don't think it can be held against them. Consumer demand and all that.

Even they go so far as to try to help out developing open source drivers for their unsupported hardware, such as the onboard camera.

Their support seems good. A year. Then they have a 'Ubuntu driver' which they maintain that has the drivers that aren't aviable in the default Ubuntu kernel that their hardware may need. They seem to just stick it all in one big deb file you can install.

On the TLLTS they interviewed one of the developers on Show #163. So you may want to listen to that first and make your own opinion.

On show #171 one of the show hosts ended up actually buying one of the laptops. I am listenning to that right now so I don't know how it went yet.

http://tllts.org/

they even have ogg feeds. (makes me happy)

Binary-only modules not to be banned - this time

Posted Dec 15, 2006 12:00 UTC (Fri) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link]

Actually I was googling around for it and appears that System76 is ASUS-based laptop.

Which sounds good for me. I have a couple Asus things and I've liked them so far.

Keep in mind that there are 'ODM's vs 'OEM'.

ODM are the people that manufacture the actual device..
OEM installs the OS, puts the harddrive in and memory and provides support.

Dell, HP, System76 (or at least the people they work through), Apple, Leveno are all 'OEM's.

ODM are places like Asus, Quanta, and Compal.

I think that Quanta is the biggest one. (for instance I beleive they make Apple's stuff)

Asus is nice because you can buy a barebones stuff directly from them, but it's a bit difficult as there is no standardization. For instance DVD drive of one type may not fit into a laptop and it's difficult to figure out what works before you buy it.

Tuxmobil has a partial matrix of relationships between OEM and ODM.
http://tuxmobil.org/laptop_oem.html