ZaReason will install Trisquel on their computer
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I readed from LibrePlanet Italia, in the mailing list, that "ZaReason, one of the three biggest american company selling computer with GNU/Linux installed, will install Trisquel on their computer, starting from the next year. In this way it will be possible to buy laptops with free chipset Atheros (wifi 802.11 N), Trisquel pre-installed with (only american) keyboard without the evil windows logo. Unfortunately bios is still proprietary, but ZaReason said that they want to work for making it free in the future. I don't know if the news is alredy public, but anyway it is confirmed by reliable sources."
This is the Libre Planet Italia's site (in italian):
http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:LibrePlanet_Italia
This is the link to the mailing list (in italian):
http://lists.libreplanet.org/archive/html/libreplanet-it/2010-12/msg00028.html
This is the ZaReason site (in english):
http://www.zareason.com
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That's awesome, however ZaReason also pre-installs at least one other distribution - Ubuntu. They also seem to believe it's called "Linux" and not "GNU/Linux".
Other than that, good news! The more computers come with free systems pre-installed, the better!
That's great news. As far as I know, the only place to get a computer with Trisquel pre-installed right now is http://inatux.com/?gnu, and their options are pretty limited. I'm pretty sure they only offer desktop computers, and only with ATI video cards, so 3D acceleration won't work. Plus, you have to request a quote to see how much it will cost, so I have no idea what kind of prices they're charging.
http://laclinux.com/gnu/Start also sells computers with a fully free operating system pre-installed, but they don't offer Trisquel, only gNewSense. Plus, all of their offerings are rather high-end and expensive.
So it's nice to see a site with reasonably priced computers that will be selling them with Trisquel in the future.
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