[HacktionLab] Conflict minerals [was: Re: How t buy a laptop that will work with Linux]

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On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, mark wrote:

> Whenever people talk to me about buying a computer, I encourage them
> to think about what they really need, and whether their needs can be
> met by a second hand machine rather than them being seduced by the
> gloss of the new.

Apart from the minerals and similar issues: when I bought my laptop new, 
I encountered various issues with drivers for the hardware that were not 
yet available in the distro I use (had to build my own kernel, get 
drivers from manufacturers sites etc)

When I reinstalled the box recently, all those drivers were available out 
of the distros repository.

Bottom line being:  using a second hand machine 2+ years old is much 
easier if you plan to run ubuntu/debian ...

kizziz
IAH


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>
> If anyone has any up-to-date reports / authoritative stats on social
> and environmental impact of ICT, please share, as my references on
> this are a few years old now.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
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