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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday September 30 2015, @09:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the user-friendly-hardware dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 1, Troll) by Hairyfeet on Thursday October 01 2015, @06:37AM

    by Hairyfeet (75) <{bassbeast1968} {at} {gmail.com}> on Thursday October 01 2015, @06:37AM (#243878) Journal

    Thank, thank you ever so much for PROVING my point! ONE GUY, one, out of a site that is...what? Now over 4000+ users? Exactly ONE was sold. Notice that I did NOT say that none would be sold, but made it quite clear that never would they sell enough to be viable which again just proves my point. After all if you look hard enough you can find an OpenMoko, Openpandora, Jolla tablet, etc but they never sold enough to keep the doors open so unless this is literally being run as a non profit charity case? Yeah its doomed.

    BTW note it was an AC account, I have zero doubt when I put that out there a couple of FOSSies put out the call on the Tux forums for the one guy that had one and if he/she wouldn't have posted AC? We'd see that person had exactly ONE POST and it was that one...how about it admins? Care to tell us how many posts have come from that one IP address? I don't want to know the address, just if they ever posted here before this time...I'm guessing that is a big NO.

    This is of course ignoring the rotting elephant in the room which is that laptops have a life span and the plastics and boards used in those? Yeah this ain't no Toughbook, and you have no idea how close this thing is to being dead when you get it. I'd point out how limited a run that particular Lenovo was but...lets be fucking honest, they'll never reach even mid 4 digit sales and will probably end up with a pile of the things unsold, so like OpenMoko it won't matter how limited the supply is. But of course feel free to scream at me for daring to point out your emperor is bare assed, meanwhile I will have a good ROFLCopter when this thing goes the way of Jolla, OpenMoko, OpenPandora...BTW did anybody come up with ONE open hardware of the last decade that wasn't a complete flop? Yeah thought so, I rest my case.

      BTW the truly fucking sad part? Is I WANT something like this to make it big, after all we are rapidly approaching a time when X86 will be as locked as cellphones, but because the assholes that run places like the FSF are so fucking militant they make SJWs look like peaceniks they will cock it up just like they did with this. How much you wanna bet they could have used a laptop from 2014/2015 by just contacting somebody like Acer or Asus and asking them which units have AMD (so no Intel spychip) and support coreboot? But nope, got to be so anal retentive that they can't just say "If you want 100% free use this USB wireless instead of the built in one which we have off by default"...nope, got to be so fucking hardcore about it they could only find a unit that has been out of sale longer than Obama has been in office, I'm shocked they didn't follow St. iGNUcious and use an uber rare Loongsoon cheapo Chinabook! Nadella and Cook really ought to send them a fruitbasket, as stupid ass moves like charging $450 for a unit as old as dirt REALLY makes their jobs easier. After all what is Joe Public that hears about the Win 10 spying gonna do, buy this ancient POS or download the "disable spy" tool and get a much nicer and newer system for less? Hell at least if they went with the POS Chinabook they could have offered it for sub $150, at $445? Well there is retarded and there is playing Russian roulette with 5 bullets dumb, this? The latter.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 01 2015, @07:15AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 01 2015, @07:15AM (#243888)

    Wow. You clearly have some inner issues that you are having a hard time dealing with and have projected them on this project. So much anger and screaming, so little relevancy.

  • (Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday October 01 2015, @01:29PM

    by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Thursday October 01 2015, @01:29PM (#243981) Journal

    Worse than SJWs?!

    Wow.

    If I didn't need a snowblower, I think I'd buy one of these laptops today just to piss you off. (Too bad they're on back order!) Seriously, why is free software such a trigger for you? I know you disapprove of Windows 10, but that's the future, my friend. Before you know it, you'll turn on your computer one day and find a helpful message from the SJWs: “Your computer access has been suspended in pursuance of the Anti-Microaggression Act of 2112. Have a nice day.”

    You'll get out your trusty Windows XP install disk, but UEFI 19 won't run it because it hasn't been signed by the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx.