provide list of Ubuntu hardware vendors

found a link under construction: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WhereToFindUbuntuPreInstalled (although it was last edited over 25 days ago)

If the Ubuntu marketing team is able to maintain such a list and provide it to us, I'm sure we will be able to make appropriate provision on the website. I suggest you bring it up on their mailing list for further discussion.

Until then, I'll close the bug here.

Matthew East wrote:
> If the Ubuntu marketing team is able to maintain such a list and provide
> it to us, I'm sure we will be able to make appropriate provision on the
> website. I suggest you bring it up on their mailing list for further
> discussion.
>
> Until then, I'll close the bug here.
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu-website (upstream)
> Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected
>

LXer have opened a database of vendors providing pre-installed linuxes:
http://lxer.com/module/db/index.php?dbn=14
Quite a number provide Ubuntu; it should be possible to extract those
entries and list them on the site.
(It would also be worth going through all the ubuntu-installling vendors
and making sure they are on the partners page of the website.)

John

> (It would also be worth going through all the ubuntu-installling vendors
> and making sure they are on the partners page of the website.)

AFAIK that's not how the partners page works. Organisations need to apply
for partnership status, Canonical doesn't chase organisations for it, that
I know of. http://www.ubuntu.com/partners/become

> If the Ubuntu marketing team is able to maintain such a list ... I suggest you bring it up on
> their mailing list for further discussion.

I subscribed them to this bug previously. It seems they are already receiving the comments of this bug and bug # 63192 ("where to buy laptops"):
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-marketing/2007-January/001419.html (this one for January)
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-marketing/2007-January/001420.html (bug # 63192 for January)

Thanks for looking into this.

Matthew East wrote:
>> (It would also be worth going through all the ubuntu-installling vendors
>> and making sure they are on the partners page of the website.)
>
> AFAIK that's not how the partners page works. Organisations need to apply
> for partnership status, Canonical doesn't chase organisations for it, that
> I know of. http://www.ubuntu.com/partners/become
>
Sorry, I meant the marketplace:
http://www.ubuntu.com/support/marketplace

John

I recently posted a comment related to this topic on Bug #1 ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1/comments/382 ), and received a surprising response from Mark Shuttleworth.

I'd like to add to the discussion of this bug that care should be taken to show how well does every given computer model support 100% free drivers without proprietary binary blobs and hardware. This is important, given Mark's recent announcement about the upcoming radical free edition of Gutsy Gibbon. Inspired by this, and by FSF's calls for "free-as-in-freedom hardware" i tried for the last few days to buy a laptop which would have only perfectly free components, but couldn't find one. Even Mark admits that such a laptop probably does not exist (yet).

Currently two famous vendors of laptops with pre-installed Ubuntu - Dell and system76 - both include hardware, which is either outright restricted or free, but technically crippled.

If i can't find a laptop that is 100% free, i would still prefer to buy one that is 90% free rather than 50% and i would consider paying more for one.