Tuxedo and reliability (Re: New kde.org/hardware webpage)

[Philippe Cloutier]

Le 2020-01-30 à 03:38, Vinzenz Vietzke a écrit :
> Hi Philippe,
>
> Am 29. Januar 2020 22:46:14 schrieb Philippe Cloutier 
> <chealer at gmail.com>:
>>
>>>> 2. What comes on these PC-s? Vendor-specific GNU/Linux distributions?
>>>>
>>>> It seemed to be a normal OpenSUSE installation (you can choose 
>>>> between a few
>>>> distros, that's nice).
>>> Exactly. What we do with all our pre-installations is this scheme:
>>>
>>> Minimal distribution setup + desktop pattern/metapackage + 
>>> additional drivers
>>> needed for the machines.
>>
>>
>> And how are these drivers added?
>
> We add repositories to the package management system (Apt/Rpm) and 
> pull the packages in during install. So e.g. we're adding 
> graphics.tuxedocomputers.com to keep back untested graphics driver 
> versions.
>
> These repositories are accessible for manual installations as well as 
> our fully automated ones during the manufacturing process.


Thank you Vinzenz. I would suggest to make that information available on 
Tuxedo's website. Unless it is already, in which case I find it 
difficult to find.


>
> Cheers,
> vinz.
>
>
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