[blag-whereto] Diversity and use of hardware being used for blag

[Abdur-Rahman Morgan]

Hello All,

My apologies, first, as you all are the list members and not the forum 
members. This info is duplicated in the forums as well.

http://forums.blagblagblag.org/viewtopic.php?p=27269#27269

Presently, I am using F12 with a linux libre kernel on an Acer 
Travelmate C300 Tablet Notebook. The specifications for my system can be 
found here:

http://support.acer.com/acerpanam/notebook/0000/Acer/TravelMateC300/TravelMateC300sp2.shtml

Briefly, the specs are P4 Centrino 1.7GHz, 1.5GB RAM, 250GB HD, DVD-/+RW

I first used this system with blag 60k, but primarily with 70k and 90k. 
All hardware worked well out of the box but I had to configure X.org for 
the digitizer and pen. I primarily used xournal and gournal for writing 
and drawing, xvkbd for a virtual on screen keyboard, cellwriter for 
handwriting recognition and gimp, qcad and other drawing design 
applications respectively

The system today has Fedora 12 with a linux-libre kernel installed. All 
hardware works out of the box including the digitizer and pen. I use the 
same applications and have been trying primarily, but have been trying 
indic onscreen keyboard.

I am satisfied overall with the experience using blag.

Secondly, I have a desktop system. This will vary from time to time 
because I like to build my own desktops, but as a benchmark, I usually 
run a single core system (2.0Ghz or up)or dual core (1.6Ghz or up) 
minimally with 1GB RAM, 500GB+ dependent on what I am using it for. 
Primarily, my desktops, I use my ogg/vorbis library of music and I will 
start playing around with encoding video in theora or other free formats.

Typically, based on how I feel, I will usually swap from running F12(in 
the future blag 120k) or gNewSense to play with the features of 
different distros, but I have been using qemu and Virtual Machine 
Manager lately to run this within the distro that I am using.

Thanks!


On 01/02/2010 08:34 PM, Abdur-Rahman Morgan wrote:
> Happy 2010 Forum Members,
>
> Over the past few weeks as I have been posting to the forum, talking
> with others on IRC and making an effort to try and get feedback from
> those of you in the community, today my post is about getting to know
> the hardware that is being used in the community. Many of us have come
> here from other distributions for a variety of different reasons. Some
> technical, others political, perhaps a variety of both or maybe neither,
> or see a connection between what we believe in and the principles here.
> My goal in this post is to know what hardware people are using to get an
> understanding of how people are using blag.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Abdur-Rahman
>
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