On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Ben Finney <ben+freesoftware@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
Adrian Colomitchi <acolomitchi@gmail.com> writes:
Unfortunately, based on my experience, you will have to compile the specs.
Thank you for responding with encouragement nevertheless:
Fortunately, its not 2000 any more: most of the components are supported by kernel drivers - the "horror driver stories" mostly pertains to "medieval ages" nowadays (even the laptops support a linux installation out of the box).
Yes, but that's the easy claim to make these days.
The pertinent question is: Do they support Linux *without binary blobs*, such as found in Trisquel or gNewSense or Debian with only free software, out of the box? Starting with an Intel MB with integrated graphics may help: http://intellinuxgraphics.org/
Haven't done all the research, but this one looks to have good chances http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/motherboards/db-DZ68DB/DZ68DB-overview... Also, with some older (but not deprecated) nVidia, you may have some luck with the nouveau drivers http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/MesaDrivers You still afraid of network cards?
That's the question I know has been answered thousands of times by others for specified hardware configurations, and am hoping that knowledge doesn't need to be discovered yet again in my case.
I suggest you give www.msy.com.au a try.
Thanks, I will if I can actually get their attention; when I've bought from them in the past they've been insanely busy :-)
Hmmm... they are selling in an over-the-counter mode and no delivery and at reasonable prices, I think I understand why. Also, I guess it pretty much depends on what shop and day of the week you choose (Brooklyn is convenient for me and isn't *that* busy). Adrian