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

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

Posted Apr 4, 2007 7:43 UTC (Wed) by NightMonkey (subscriber, #23051)
In reply to: Buy! Buy! Buy! - into Openness (Linux Journal) by sbergman27
Parent article: Buy! Buy! Buy! - into Openness (Linux Journal)

Penguin Computing. "Getting it" (for Servers and Workstations) since 1998. That makes them 9 years ahead of Dell at making servers and workstations (and clusters) made to fit with Linux.

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

Posted Apr 4, 2007 16:02 UTC (Wed) by bfields (subscriber, #19510) [Link] (1 responses)

Like the others, they don't include any mention of whether the hardware they sell is supported by free/open source drivers.

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

Posted Apr 4, 2007 20:02 UTC (Wed) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link]

Ask in the forum. It's the "System76 Support" area on this page:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org

The System76 support staff are very active there, and you should get answers fairly quickly.

I believe that *all* their machines are supported with free drivers. Although some people seem not to like the "nv" video driver. ;-) You should be fine with any of the units that feature Intel video and wifi, though.

But ask in the support forum first, to be sure. I could be wrong.

And make a suggestion about making the information available on their site. They seem quite open to taking suggestions.