4th Generation Haswell Penguin Wees now available (free software friendly)
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Along with the 4th generation CPU from Intel we now have better support for ordering internationally. Customers from 20 or so countries can now order through the web site. There is no real need to contact us any more in order to place an order in most circumstances. There may still be a small handful of products which are unavailable however. Despite that this nearly completes the entire catalog being available within a few clicks for most major markets (where we see demand). There are a few countries noticeably absent. Mainly South Africa & Brazil. Unfortunately these countries make it near impossible to get expensive products through customs.
The list includes: UNITED STATES, JAPAN, BELGIUM, GERMANY, ITALY, AUSTRIA, GREENLAND, CANADA, NETHERLANDS, FRANCE, MONACO, FINLAND, IRELAND, NORWAY, SPAIN, SWEDEN, UNITED KINGDOM, KOREA, REPUBLIC OF, AUSTRALIA.
Here are links:
New 4th gen model:
Notable specs include: Intel HD 4600 graphics & Quad Core i5
You can find these two new models under Shop > Desktop Computers:
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One question Chris: will you be manually upgrading the kernel on shipped units to Linux 3.11? 3.11 has great support for Haswell graphics, and I'm afraid that anything less than 3.10 would be poor - users are bound to get lag, freezes and video output issues if a new kernel/mesa driver stack is not included.
Otherwise, terrific stuff!
I maintain a kernel that people can use if they need a kernel that's newer than what their distro provides. Information and instructions are available at http://jxself.org/linux-libre/
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Yep, and it's a wonderful contribution to free software - I'm only trying to talk about it from a layman's perspective. A general computer user is unlikely to manually install a new kernel, let alone a whole driver stack to enable proper hardware functioning.
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From my experience it's easier to walk someone through upgrading a kernel than installing a non-free driver. Now I know nobody would do the later here although the point was merely that it isn't as hard as people sometimes make it out to be. I think the reality is if you sell users what works best for them too rather than the 'latest and greatest' they generally won't need to upgrade the kernel. In our case we either ship with an upgraded kernel (new laptops/desktops) or have a variety of hardware options for users on older distributions. Including long term support releases. You bought your computer two years ago with Trisquel 6 LTS? Need a printer, wifi adapter, additional network adapter, sound card, etc? Good chance we've got a solution and it will work out of the box.
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If things aren't working well with the default kernel we usually upgrade the kernel to something more recent, and sometimes X. There usually (Maybe ever? Can't recall needing to do anything else anyway) isn't anything more to do than this. The only downside is usually VirtualBox doesn't work afterward although this comes down to poor coding practices of that project. It can be fixed by installing the headers I believe and then the kernel module will automatically compile on installation.
We have documentation for all of this and if we don't you can send us an email and we will at least investigate. Mind you I think we need to fix the support section still so Trisquel users and other 100% free software users can see it (We don't show compatibility information / support documentation for distributions which include non-free software, or otherwise violate FSF guidelines). I think even the Trisquel documentation isn't showing at the moment to Trisquel users (humorously). However we do point people to it frequently enough (more of a reason to fix this minor bug).
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