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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has awarded its Respects Your Freedom (RYF) certification to the Taurinus X200 laptop sold by Libiquity.
This is the first product of Libiquity to achieve RYF certification. The Taurinus X200 has the same architecture and certified software as the Libreboot X200, which was certified in January 2015. The Taurinus X200 can be purchased from Libiquity at https://shop.libiquity.com/product/taurinus-x200.
The Taurinus X200 is a refurbished and updated laptop based on the Lenovo ThinkPad X200, with all of the original low-level firmware and operating system software replaced. It runs the FSF-endorsed Trisquel GNU/Linux operating system and the free software boot system, Libreboot. Perhaps most importantly, all of Intel's Management Engine (ME) firmware and software has been removed from this laptop.
The RYF certification mark means that the product meets the FSF's standards in regard to users' freedom, control over the product, and privacy. The Taurinus X200 comes with the fast and secure Libreboot firmware and the FSF-endorsed Trisquel GNU/Linux operating system. Importantly, Intel's Management Engine (ME) firmware with its applications like AMT (remote out-of-band management/backdoor system, part of "vPro") and PAVP (audio/video DRM) have been removed from this laptop.
The laptop ships within the USA and may be purchased from the Libiquity Store.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Hairyfeet on Thursday October 01 2015, @12:04AM
The GPU is garbage, which means video acceleration is gonna be piss poor at best, and honestly a $40 AMD quad APU like the 3850 AM1 is gonna have better performance than this thing. This is...what? First gen C2D? Both the quad Intel Atoms and the quad AMD APUs both have better performance per watt and better performance overall than this thing. Also let us not forget that plastic and boards DO age and every heat cycle brings these things one step closer to failure. Are you REALLY gonna trust your important work to a unit made when Dubya was president?
The simple facts are thus...CAN it work? Sure you can even surf on a 2003 1.8GHz Sempron in 2015 if you like but it will NOT be a great experience and sure as hell isn't worth $450 for a laptop that you can find on eBay for sub $140. If you want an "open" laptop simply buy this AMD quad APU lappy for $50 less [tigerdirect.com] and load Linux on it. Acer doesn't use any of the BIOS bullshit like Lenovo,AMD has hired guys to work on the open driver with the goal to ultimately replace their Linux driver with the FOSS one, and the performance per watt and performance overall will be head and shoulders better than a CPU+GPU combo that came out nearly a decade ago. Hell it takes less than 30 minutes to load Linux on one of these things with a flash stick and I can vouch for these as I've sold a few of them at the shop and they are great performers, solid and reliable. Oh and its the same APU in this list of Ubuntu certified systems [ubuntu.com] and if it'll work in Ubuntu it'll usually work just fine in all the Ubuntu derivatives which are by a pretty large margin the most popular Linux distros.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 4, Informative) by frojack on Thursday October 01 2015, @01:47AM
You seem to have forgotten what it was they were trying to accomplish.
They want a guaranteed backdoor free computer. With any new Intel or AMD chip or Video cards you can't guarantee that any more.
http://wccftech.com/intel-possibly-amd-chips-permanent-backdoors-planted-nsa-updated-1/ [wccftech.com]
http://theunhivedmind.com/wordpress3/amd-will-also-release-spyware-processors-like-intels-vpro/ [theunhivedmind.com]
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Hairyfeet on Thursday October 01 2015, @02:08AM
Did you bother even reading your own link? Its a rumor that AMD will be POSSIBLY using the exacttrak DRM chip at some point in the future which guess what? Is NOT including in the above APU and in fact has yet to be released in a single AMD product and with the death of Seamicro and GloFlo failing to make the leap to 14nm? Will probably NEVER be released!
So sorry, you are complaining about hardware which does not exist not to mention you are actually believing a site that has Putin with headphones and is actually putting up "Jade Helms is teh EBIL!" articles as a reliable source? Whats' next, want to give us some links from the Weekly World News while you are at it?
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.