<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>It's like you wanna build your own open/libre laptop from scratch, but these guys did the hardware design and will sell you a kit with a bag full of parts. Everyday use *requires* opening it up with a screwdriver and fiddling with the hardware periodically. Nice.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I still have the first laptop I bought in the 1990s (1.25 inches thick). This is faster, better, cheaper (except the battery controller). A real technical advance.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Sounds like Debian is too slow and bloated for this hardware. I bet that Plan 9 would really fly on it. Plan 9 is from the right era and there's been no large scale effort to make it a thousand times slower and require a thousand times as much memory, as has happened with Linux distros.</div><div><br></div><div>Doug.<br></div><div><br></div><div>On Mon, Jan 31, 2022, at 8:32 AM, CrankyOldBugger wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div dir="ltr"><div>Ars Technica has a writeup on an open-source hardware laptop. It's not pretty but....<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/review-mnt-reform-laptop-has-fully-open-hardware-and-software-for-better-or-worse/">https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/review-mnt-reform-laptop-has-fully-open-hardware-and-software-for-better-or-worse/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>kwlug-disc mailing list<br></div><div><a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a><br></div><div><a href="https://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org">https://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org</a><br></div><div><br></div></blockquote></body></html>