Linked by David Adams on Fri 7th Aug 2009 19:59 UTC
A friend of OSNews asks: "You might have heard of our Open-PC project. The idea is to collaboratively build a completely open PC, with free software and free drivers. We prepare an operating system image, do online services and support and choose the hardware. Then we work together with hardware manufacturers who build and sell the PC. We already have one manufacturer in Germany who committed to work with us. We will sell the first version of the Open-PC this fall. The problem is that it is expensive to ship the PC from Germany to the United States, so we are looking for a second manufacturing partner in the US. Can you recommend a company? I think the ideal would be a mid-size PC manufacturer who has experience with assembling custom PCs, experience with Linux and is able to ship the PC economically within North America." This seems like a great candidate for crowdsourcing. So, OSNews readers, can you give our friend any leads?
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Will this be a system with off the shelf components.
This intel motherboard with a intel gpu, maby some radeon pci-e gpu if we manage to make usable drivers.
Or is this more of designing a custom motherboard with only supported devices.
If it is the first option any small systembuilder should be able to handerl it. If it's more custom we would haveto use intel or asus. And it will mostly be intel components they have pretty good specs.