Group: Hardware/Computers/Laptops/Laptops with fatal flaws/Common Laptops
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Some of theses laptops are able to run 100% free GNU/Linux distribution out of the box. | Some of theses laptops are able to run 100% free GNU/Linux distribution out of the box. | ||
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It resides inside a flash chip on the mainboard. Some laptops can or do use some free software to do the very first initialisation.</ref> | It resides inside a flash chip on the mainboard. Some laptops can or do use some free software to do the very first initialisation.</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 03:03, 25 April 2015
Introduction
Many laptops still have non-free software[1] that initialises the hardware before loading the operating system.
Theses laptops are discussed here.
Laptops
Some of theses laptops are able to run 100% free GNU/Linux distribution out of the box.
The software[1] that does the very first hardware initialisation isn't part of the GNU/Linux distributions. Instead it's bundled inside the laptop itself.[2]
