Buy! Buy! Buy! - into Openness (Linux Journal) [LWN.net]

Buy! Buy! Buy! - into Openness (Linux Journal)

Posted Apr 3, 2007 19:59 UTC (Tue) by bfields (subscriber, #19510)
In reply to: Buy! Buy! Buy! - into Openness (Linux Journal) by pizza
Parent article: Buy! Buy! Buy! - into Openness (Linux Journal)

Unless, of course, the Intel X3000 GMA is inadequate for your needs, if it is even available given your other requirements (eg higher-end motherboards or non-intel processors, or perhaps your software needs something considerably better!)

Sure. But I'm surprised a "linux-friendly" vendor couldn't at least:

Label systems requiring non-free software as such, and
point to alternatives where possible.

At a minimum, just a notice saying "this system requires proprietary nVidia drivers if you need 3D support" would be helpful.

System76 "gets it" -- they sell the system configuration(s) their customers demand. It's as simple as that.

Could be. I don't know what their customers demand. I only know why I haven't bought anything from them yet: the main reason for me to buy from a "linux-friendly" vendor is to save myself the trouble of having to research all the components for driver support. But since they silently include hardware requiring proprietary drivers, I still have to do all that work when I buy from them, so they don't offer me any particular advantage.