As always, thanks for the shared wisdom. Firefox probably saves my browsing history whether I create a "sync"ed device account or not. At least now I know they do. Firefox must have a huge profile on me: nothing but foxnews.com. I won't expect to fool our friendly politicians these days. I never joined facebook or twitter either. But I did just refresh my opensuse forums account. On first glimpse, all the hardware questions are about nitpicking obscurities, not foundation standards. Somebody could make a great home PC using Linux and modern silicon chips. Probably what the hardware industry is afraid of. Iznogoud wrote: > I do not have much info to offer on the browsing thing. I would guess that > one would want their browser history to be available to them rather than to > some --albeit benevolent-- organization. > > There are pieces of hardware that run Linux and are gaining popularity. There > is this $200 ARM-based laptop. There are some "open" hardware platforms that > are under development. There is hardware that is "vetted" to not have any > backdoors, primarily in the BIOS, etc. I wish I had links to share, but > somebbody here will point them out, I am sure. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >