Linux PC Maker System76 Plans To Design And Manufacture Its Own Hardware (liliputing.com)

An anonymous reader quotes Liliputing: System76 is one of only a handful of PC vendors that exclusively sells computers with Linux-based software. Up until now, that's meant the company has chosen hardware that it could guarantee would work well with custom firmware and the Ubuntu Linux operating system... Starting in 2018 though, you may be able to buy a System76 computer that was designed and built in-house... CAD files for System76 computers will be open source, allowing anyone with the appropriate skills and equipment to build or modify their own cases based on the company's designs.
"We're prototyping with acrylic and moving to metal soon," the company says in a blog post, adding "Our first in-house designed and manufactured desktops will ship next year. Laptops are more complex and will follow much later."

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What a weird add

[locater16]

I mean, really it's an odd way to sneak an ad onto /.

I mean, I'm so glad these new computer cases will be compatible with Linux. Really. I accidentally bought a case one time that wasn't, couldn't install Linux Mint or any other distro. Worked with Freebsd, but not Linux. Fortunately this will solve this well known problem.

Re: Don't hold your breath...

[DontBeAMoran]

Of course designing hardware is hard! Look at Apple! Even with more money in the bank than small countries they are incapable of updating their computers properly every year! Hell, in 2014 they even downgraded the Mac mini! That's how hard it is to design hardware!