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100% Free Software Compatible PC Launches

Posted by kdawson on from the of-by-and-for dept.

crimperman writes "The Open-PC project has announced that its first PC will be available at the end of February for €359. They claim the mini-ITX desktop machine is energy efficient, consumer ready, easy to upgrade, and — significantly — uses only hardware that has free software drivers available. As you'd expect, it comes with GNU/Linux which is running KDE (a €10 donation to the KDE project in included in the price). Interestingly all the key decisions on design, pricing etc. have been made by the community via online polls. The spec of the machine is pretty reasonable for the price: Atom 1.6GHz dual-core processor, 3GB RAM, 160GB HDD, Intel 950 graphics."

12 of 458 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Failed slashvertisment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I can go to Walmart and get a better machine with Windows already on it for half the price.

    For the second time I ask, who do I have to suck off to get my shitty product slashvertised?

    You need to hack Roland Piquapaille's old accounts and submit your slashvertisements as him. You can be damn sure that Slashdot's "editors" will have forgotten he passed away.

  2. Adavance Cleanse by hancynoye · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    nice post this is, and thanks for shearing a nice and informative post, Adavance Cleanse

  3. Brown wins in Massachusetts! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    LOL. How's that for a mandate? Obama, the most liberal state in the union just gave you the finger. You're officially a lame duck President now.

    1. Re:Brown wins in Massachusetts! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Does this mean that McCain is president of MA?

    2. Re:Brown wins in Massachusetts! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Sorry, but McCain quit. Defaults to Palin.

    3. Re:Brown wins in Massachusetts! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      No, but it does mean that Obamacare is officially dead, and that Obama is going to be a one-term president. Now that's change we can believe in.

      Plus, that story is far more interesting than an underpowered computer that happens to be able to use only open source drivers. (Sorry, Free drivers. Or whatever.) The only people who really care about such a thing are technically skilled enough to do it themselves.

      And let's be honest - very few people care enough about using open source to be bothered about having some binary blobs in their computer. I don't know any - and that's including a Linux users group!

  4. Re:Failed slashvertisment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    RMS doesn't have a problem with pedophilia. 05 June 2006 (Dutch paedophiles form political party) Dutch pedophiles have formed a political party to campaign for legalization. I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing.

  5. Re:Failed slashvertisment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Card counting is NOT sick or immoral and it sure as hell doesn't hurt society -- for that matter it's also NOT illegal.

  6. pedophilia, sodomy, card counting, or dog fighting by pem · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I thought I saw a couple of mean dogs in the background fighting next to a slimy-looking, cowering puppy, in that dogs playing poker picture, but it was kinda hard to tell because the room isn't all that well illuminated.

    Thanks for the confirmation.

  7. Re:Failed slashvertisment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    He's absolutely right.

  8. MOD ME DOWN, WASTE A MOD POINT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Adolf Hitler, the Fuhrer himself, burst into my room one eve and whisked me away on a dream vacation to the Bahamas! We toured the isles together arm-in-arm, and made love on the sandy beaches and in the clear, blue ocean. I fell in love with Hitler that weekend. Unfortunately when it was over, he disappeared, but I know that one day, mein Liebe will return and take me away to his castle in the clouds.

  9. Re:Failed slashvertisment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I also agree.

    Posting anonymously for obvious reasons.