The Prodigal Son Returns; LOL!

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Dave_Hunt

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se unió: 09/19/2011

Well, almost. I've retrisquelized one of my machines, and gotten one of those Think Penguin wifi dongles. I'd been away, trying lots of distros. This is Trisquel 9 on my Lenovo Thinkpad. Maybe I'll get another TP wifi dongle for the other box, or maybe get a new machine, perhaps from Think Penguin?

Cheers,

Dave H.

Malsasa
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se unió: 12/01/2016

Congratulations, Dave. Thanks for sharing your experience I could learn a lot.

Regards,
Malsasa

Dave_Hunt

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se unió: 09/19/2011

Any questions? Just ask. If I don't have a decent answer, someone else, here, will; LOL.

knife

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se unió: 01/02/2019

I wish you all the best, son!

PublicLewdness
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se unió: 03/15/2020

Congrats. I started with one and then outfitted all of my systems with either a Think Penguin dongle or PCI-E card. They're great for speed and hassle free to install. I like the look of Think Penguin laptops but they lack Libreboot/CoreBoot and privacy kill switches. If I were to get a laptop my list would be:

1. Mini Free/RetroFreedom (Libreboot)
2. Purism (Coreboot + Privacy Kill Switches)
3. System76/Star Labs (CoreBoot)
4. Think Penguin (Works on Trisquel for certain)
5. PineBook Pro (Privacy Kill Switches)

Dave_Hunt

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se unió: 09/19/2011

Thanks for the list. What about Star Labs? I think they sell a Core Boot laptop? Maybe something is non-free in their products?

PublicLewdness
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se unió: 03/15/2020

I forgot about Star Labs. I am happy they started offering CoreBoot. Looking at their laptop I would say the only part that doesn't look to be FOSS friendly to me is their wifi, I haven't seen any AX chips that fork without blobs. That being said System76 will probably have the same issue.

eric23
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se unió: 06/30/2017

There is another vendor called Zerocat.

http://zerocat.org/coreboot-machines.html

They also sell a RYF device called chipflasher. I have one, but yet have to get down to flashing my x230t with blobless coreboot.

Dave_Hunt

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se unió: 09/19/2011

Thanks!

My ThinkPenguin laptop is shipping on Monday.

-Dave-