Tuxedo-Rs

This week I was talking to a fellow student at my university. He was thinking about buying a laptop to replace his aging Microsoft Surface device. He also expressed interest in trying Linux and asked specifically which laptop I was using. So I said: “That’s a laptop made by TUXEDO Computers. It’s actually pretty cool because the company is located here in Augsburg and they even sponsor our Formula Student team. They ship laptops with Linux pre-installed if you want. Also, you’ll get a discount as a student.” ...

I’m excited to announce tuxedo-rs, a collection of Rust crates for interacting with hardware from TUXEDO Computers. Some background TUXEDO Computers is a PC and notebook vendor from Germany that sells hardware optimized for Linux. TUXEDO Computers are customizable Linux notebooks and Desktop PCs optimized in the first place to run with Ubuntu-based Linux operating systems. Literally Linux hardware in a tailor-made suit. I think that’s pretty neat! For me, having a small local hardware vendor that focuses on Linux is basically all I could wish for. ...