Guido Arnold ha scritto:
Thanks for your responses. Hm, I'll have to see if I can wait that long. My current mobile is at it's last legs.
As said before, there is not actually a mobile phone available to buy which is based entirely on free software/hardware.
The nearest ones are Openmoko and I think the ACCESS devices when they will be ready, IMHO.
What I would like to see, eventually, is a database of vendors who sell "free"d hardware like openmoko or laptops without any proprietary software on them.
The nearest ones to your desires are listed on my homepage:
www.chi3.org/hardware.php
I listed notebooks with GNU/Linux preinstalled (even if GNU system is Ubuntu which is not entirely free by now), cell phones (like Neo) and gaming console (like GPX).
It's not a perfect list of entirely free hardware/software devices. They are the nearest ones to the target, as you said before. I completely agree with you on your ideas. If completely free devices are not yet ready, we should list the most free ones.
I know nothing about free software/hardware vendors. My idea was only a start towards a future when we will have entirely free devices to list. :)
(suggestions are welcome!)