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? 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 :-) -- \ “Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?” “I think so, | `\ Brain, but if the plural of mouse is mice, wouldn't the plural | _o__) of spouse be spice?” —_Pinky and The Brain_ | Ben Finney