We, TUXEDO Computers, are a hardware vendor for laptops and PCs with Linux pre-installed for convenient usage by customers. This includes both the installation and the after-sales support by our tech support team.
We have our own Ubuntu based distribution "TUXEDO OS" with Plasma and focus mainly on that. Since 2019 we are offering openSUSE Leap as well plus a bunch of other Ubuntu based ones like elementaryOS. Still, customers keep asking for other distributions. Quite frequently for Fedora, of course. So we added F38 Workstation to our fully automated installation service (WebFAI, see https://webfai.de ).
To automate the installation, WebFAI boots a small Debian system, bootstraps a F38 Workstation image to the machine's hard drive and prepares everything necessary. The latter includes: - enable OEM mode, so customers can choose language, keyboard layout, username and password at first boot - adds our repository https://rpm.tuxedocomputers.com/fedora/ - installs our Control Center and necessary drivers to get things like fan control, special keys etc. working https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-Control-Center.tuxedo - for machines with Nvidia GPU we don't ship the proprietary driver per se, but users can choose to enable the repo during first boot
Customers can choose to get their installation LUKS-LVM full disk encrypted directly shipped to them. This is possible for any installation by TUXEDO so for Fedora as well. We achieve that this way:
Our idea is to: 1. Place two reference models on our shop - InfinityBook Pro14 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-InfinityBook-Pro-14-Gen8.tuxedo - Stellaris 16 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-Stellaris-16-Gen5.tuxedo 2. Offer both models optional with Fedora logo printed on the lid and lasered on the super key 3. Get a dedicated space on Fedora's forum for software-side support 4. Place both laptops as "Fedora Approved" (or something like that) on https://getfedora.org and/or https://fedoraproject.org 5. Run a coordinated social media campaign
All steps listed above are either finished or in preparation already. So the only thing missing is approval of the logo usage.
We already prepared prototypes with the desired logo usage:
Hopefully I didn't forget anything important. Looking forward to your comments and further discussion!
I've created a topic on Fedora Discussion for this ticket.
Please keep this ticket focused. Discuss there, and record votes and decisions here. Thanks!
Logo usage We already prepared prototypes with the desired logo usage: <!!image> <!!image>
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Discussed in 2023-08-30 meeting in #meeting:fedoraproject.org. No logs due to temporary lack of Meetbot infrastructure.
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Tuxedo Computers may use the Fedora Remix secondary mark for their laptops, on the basis of their extra software not being available in default Fedora repositories and the Linux kernel tree, but being licensed under proper Open Source licenses. This decision could be revisited on the basis of necessary upstreaming work being done by the vendor to integrate their software into Linux and Fedora thoroughly.
@tuxedocomputers, folks in the meeting were willing to help on the upstreaming of your work. If you want more information on getting that help, please reach out on the Fedora Discussion topic for this ticket.
I am closing this as resolved.
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Metadata Update from @jflory7: - Issue close_status updated to: resolved - Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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