Manjaro Spitfire laptop with Qubes 4.x?

[Teqleez Motley]

Hi all, anyone who have tried the Manjaro Spitfire laptop with Qubes 4.x? (or even 3.x?)

Ref-1. https://manjaro.org/hardware-spitfire/
Ref-2: https://www.qubes-os.org/hcl/

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Regards,
Teqleez

[Stumpy]

On 11/4/18 1:06 PM, Teqleez Motley wrote:
> Hi all, anyone who have tried the Manjaro Spitfire laptop with Qubes 4.x? (or even 3.x?)
>
> Ref-1. https://manjaro.org/hardware-spitfire/
> Ref-2: https://www.qubes-os.org/hcl/
>

I have no idea but I checked it out and... nice! Seems a bit cheaper
than purism, and takes 32gb of mem, those are some qubes friendly specs.

[22...@tutamail.com]

Interesting and very cool....Euro laptop! Seems intriguing but I could not find some of the questions I was wondering:

1) Are the BIOS proprietary? Same as Librem..
2) Has the manufacturer said it is compatible with Qubes? Seems they would want to test this themselves.

Have you reached out to them? Was tempted to do it myself...

[Stumpy]

good questions, but:
1) Dont know, but good question.
2) Didnt reach out, but they had a bunch of different distros as an
option to install, including fedora and debian if I remember correctly
(though I am sure not Qubes nor xen).

While I am not holding my breath on the BIOS, I am happy enough that at
least some comptuers (purism and sy76) are inching thier way towards
non-prop firmware.

[22...@tutamail.com]

I agree it is good to see the smaller manufacturers making efforts...the market is clearly for Gaming. I would love to see a security centric offering though.

I tried sending a note to Majora, they have a Forum and a Feedback link. I sent them a note on the feedback link but it just clocks...I didn't want to sign up for the forum so didn't ask there.

Maybe they will respond here?

[Tai...@gmx.com]

What they state they will do is impossible and they are setting the
freedom computing movement back by years by brainwashing people in to
thinking that modern x86 hardware can be free.

They could have made an OpenPOWER laptop that is actually owner
controlled and libre from the factory but they simply refuse to do
anything like that.

Doesn't anyone find it odd how the tech media loves those two to the
point where they issue glorified press releases but never covers their
honest competitors? Seriously those so called journalists do zero
research on their claims of things like "disabled me" "open source
firmware" and "made in usa" both of which are not at all true.

[Achim Patzner]

Am Montag, den 26.11.2018, 17:00 -0500 schrieb Tai...@gmx.com:
> What they state they will do is impossible and they are setting the
> freedom computing movement back by years by brainwashing people in to
> thinking that modern x86 hardware can be free.

And I'm feeling the same about the Librem and similar hardware. It's
misleading to the point of cheating the customer.

> They could have made an OpenPOWER laptop that is actually owner
> controlled and libre from the factory but they simply refuse to do
> anything like that.

I just ordered the cyborg monday offer from Raptor CS. I'm just
wondering if I can get a real hypervisor running on this hardware. I
would of course like to get Qubes on top of LPARs but don't really see
this coming in the near future...


Achim