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Vienna’s university sells GNU/Linux laptops

Being on the prowl for hardware vendors who meet our demands for Free Software (or at least move towards them) I found out that the university of Vienna sells laptops to their students with  GNU/Linux pre-installed.

I learned that a similar project has been going on since September in Switzerland.

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More mini-notebooks with GNU/Linux pre-installed to come

Pro-Linux led me to this blog-entry. Apparently, there are more and more notebooks, with pre-installed GNU/Linux on the way…

OpenMoko Launched as Mobile Device Company

Businesswire announced that OpenMoko is now a separate company of FIC.  Further infos can be found here.

EeePC with Xandros available in Europe soon

Asus will start to offer the EeePC in Europe starting December. They seem to fulfill the GPL now after some discrepancies in the beginning.

WLAN router with Debian GNU/Linux

Recently, I started collecting news about hardware vendors who are favoring Free Software. Here is a new one:

WLAN routers with a free configurable Debian GNU/Linux on it can be obtained by Saxnet.

A complete list of what I’ve collected so far can be found on http://wiki.fsfe.org/Hardware_vendors

ASUS Motherboard Ships With Embedded GNU/Linux

Asus built a motherboard that boots optionally a GNU/Linux system in 5 seconds. Generally, that’s a nice feature, alas the system is not entirely "free" and can only be updated via Windows. See this test article and the discussion about it.