If you want a Linux on a laptop, it's easy to install it yourself. You can also always buy one from a specialized Linux vendor such asSystem76 and ZaReason or even get a mainstream laptop, like the new Dell XPS 13 and 15 with Ubuntu installed. What you can't do is get one with a minimum of proprietary firmware, until now.
Crowd Supply, a curated crowd-funding and e-commerce company has been working on funding the first pure free-software laptop, the Purism Librem 15. The Kickstarter-like project had been seeking $250,000 to create the "first high-end laptop in the world that ships without mystery software in the kernel, operating system, or any software applications." On January 21st, the company achieved its goal. As of January 22nd, the project has raised just over $260,000.
Purism, the company behind the Librem 15, promises that it will ship an Intel CPU fused to run unsigned BIOS code. The hope is that this will allow a future where free software can replace the proprietary, digitally signed, BIOS binaries.
Source:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/librem-15-free-software-gnulinux-laptop-makes-funding-goal/
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