Hardware Help
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I have built three computers over the past few years, no problem. All Windows. I really want to try Trisquel, would someone please help me to know what hardware - motherboard, cpu, video card, etc. will work? Am I being too cautious, does it matter?
In advance, I thank you.
Thank you, that site is helpful but nothing about motherboards.
Upon further review, the information on that site and http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards#Desktops_.2F_Workstations is outdated. Please help, I really want to try trisquel and I'm ready to build.
Upon further review, the information on that site and http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards#Desktops_.2F_Workstations is outdated. Please help, I really want to try trisquel and I'm ready to build.
It will be a hard task because the manufacturers don't give you enough info. They use the exact same name for different hardware internally...
If you wish your system to work guaranteedly, there are already assembled systems available https://www.gnu.org/links/companies.html
Please note that Coreboot contains proprietary blobs. For a free version of Coreboot, I recommend Libreboot: http://libreboot.org/docs/hcl/index.html#supported_list
I don't wish to buy an already made system because I have a wonderful case I'm ready to use.
pizzaiolo - i'm confused, "free version," is coreboot software?
You see, Coreboot is a libre project. All of the code they write is under a free license. Despite that, most of the boards supported by Coreboot still require some proprietary, nonfree programs to boot the system. Libreboot is a distro of Coreboot that removes all the proprietary code in Coreboot. So you should probably choose Libreboot-supported hardware :)
What motherboard do you use?
I don't know, to be honest. But it's not compatible with Libreboot, sadly.
So, you can run Trisquel without it?
For sure! H-node lists a lot of hardware that is compatible with Trisquel, you can use that as a reference guide :)
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