trisquel on notebooks listed on coreboot webpage?
I want to know what free software computers you can get? Fsf says the only computer for sale that complies to the free software requests, is the gluglug. At the same time Fsf links to http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards#Laptops. Would you please clarify what the webpage shows? There is a list of notebooks. If a notebook is marked 'red' to the left, then there is no expectation, that coreboot will work? The macbook 2.1 is marked 'green'. You can install coreboot. If you afterwards install trisquel, do you then get all drivers installed, and full hardware support? In general can notebooks on the list become free software notebooks?
Thanks.
None of these mean that a coreboot binary that you build will work.
Red/green means if someone published logs from a working build. Device
pages have more info on what works or doesn't and sometimes list
required blobs.
Macbook 2,1 has webcam that needs nonfree firmware, other parts work
with issues like big power usage (CPU cstate changing is disabled).
(There are many other reasons why Thinkpads are better quality computers
for GNU/Linux.)
This is what you're looking for http://www.libreboot.org/docs/index.html#supported_list -not coreboot. Also look at hnode for working laptops.
Thank you. Libreboot is coreboot software with non free software removed? If you install coreboot, you do not know if you install non free software? The thinkpad x201 cannot become a free software computer?
Libreboot is a distribution of coreboot (without nonfree software), grub
and several other packages and their configuration. Libreboot has
binaries for specific computers that work without other blobs in their
boot firmware flash.
If you install coreboot, you should read its wiki and configuration, you
will mostly know what nonfree parts are included (some are in a separate
repository; some you need to extract from your computer's BIOS).
X201 works with no other nonfree software in boot firmware flash than ME
firmware and CPU microcode (there is no nonfree code running on the main
CPU). It's not possible to remove/disable ME firmware in a simple way
(removing it makes the laptop reboot after 30 minutes).
You might have more requirements for a "free computer" than what X60
does.