A new company that preinstalls Trisquel!!

[Antonio Esposito]

Hi Antonio,

I noticed Garlach44 starts to preinstall Trisquel GNU/Linux in many of
their computers. I think it's a wonderful news for Free Software
community and movement. :)
http://www.garlach44.eu/en/
http://www.garlach44.eu/en/trisquel

Good news indeed. Thanks for letting me know. You might want to inform
discussion at fsfeurope.org about that. Beside that we have
https://wiki.fsfe.org/Hardware_vendors, where you might want to add it.

I already know the FSFE database and Garlach44 is inside.

The novelty is they are the first company (I know) in Europe that sell
some computers with Trisquel preinstalled (a completely free
distribution based on Ubuntu), so they're completely compatible with
Free Software.

Most of the companies that sell computers with GNU/Linux and-or
without windows preinstalled do NOT pose the problem that many of
these computers require proprietary firmware (alias "binary bloobs")
to run some important components, including wireless cards.

IMHO it's not wrong to propose and have a database lists who do not
sell computers with Trisquel (or other free distribution)
preinstalled, but it should keep in mind in order to create a
constructive awareness that will lead other companies to make this
choice, and then further improve the Free Software world.

In conclusion, a good idea might be to give priority to companies who
preinstall Trisquel (as ThinkPenguin and Garlach44) and list the
others in a second table explaining why they're in a different table.

My 2cent,

[Matthias Kirschner]

Post by Antonio Esposito

Good news indeed. Thanks for letting me know. You might want to inform
discussion at fsfeurope.org about that. Beside that we have
https://wiki.fsfe.org/Hardware_vendors, where you might want to add it.

I already know the FSFE database and Garlach44 is inside.
The novelty is they are the first company (I know) in Europe that sell
some computers with Trisquel preinstalled (a completely free
distribution based on Ubuntu), so they're completely compatible with
Free Software.
In conclusion, a good idea might be to give priority to companies who
preinstall Trisquel (as ThinkPenguin and Garlach44) and list the
others in a second table explaining why they're in a different table.

This page is a Fellowship ressource, which means that the Fellows who
are working on it, take decisions.

My suggestion would be to to have them highlighted in the list, and
write a short paragraph why they are highlighted (maybe point to FSF's
distribution list).

So yes please go ahead, add them to the list, add a short paragraph
about the topic, and maybe coordiate with the other Fellows, when they
have questions.

Cheers,
Matthias