Group: Hardware/History/Laptops Comparison

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Brand and Model Type Required and Optional Proprietary "BIOS Replacement" Components Required and Optional Proprietary Components for Peripherals Compatible BIOS Replacements Compatible 100% Free software distributions
Lemote 8089D Netbook None None
  • Pmon
  • Grub2 ?
  • Gnewsense ?
  • Parabola ?
Lemote 8101B Netbook None None
  • Pmon
  • Grub2 ?
  • Gnewsense ?
  • Parabola ?
Lemote Loongson 3A notebook Notebook
  • Ati VGA BIOS/Option Rom Required to have graphics
  •  ?
  • Probalby optional ATI microcode for the GPU(No 3D without it).
  • Pmon
  •  ?
Lenovo X60 light/compact Notebook
  • With coreboot: Optional VGA BIOS rom(No graphics during boot without it, but as soon as linux-libre loads the i915 driver, graphics start working).
  • CPU Microcode ?
  • The default Wifi Card is from intel and require non-free firmware, replace that card.
  • The default non-free BIOS can be replaced with Coreboot v4 (warning the procedure is complicated)
  • Trisquel 5.5 and 6.0
  • Parabola