Purism Librem 15 Linux laptop blends high-end hardware with totally free software | PCWorld

Purism Librem 15 Linux laptop blends high-end hardware with totally free software | PCWorld

This is an interesting idea from the world of crowdsourcing.  It’s based on Trisquel, which is based on Ubuntu.  Seems to be made from high end components but it also seems to have a high end price tag.

Looking at the prices, $2199 fro 8GB and a 250GB SSD is more than I paid for my MacBook Air with 8GB and a 512GB mSATA SSD.  CPUs are similar though.

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It’s A Return To The Azure-Alypse–Microsoft Azure Suffers Global Outage

Go big, or go home.  When they have a catastrophic failure, they REALLY have a catastrophic failure.  Seems something has caused a global Azure outage that is impacting many of MSFT’s own services, in addition to the cloud services.  I’m looking forward to reading the postmortem on this.

It’s A Return To The Azure-Alypse–Microsoft Azure Suffers Global Outage.

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