Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 7th Dec 2006 22:06 UTC
After seven years of work, the LinuxBIOS project is on the brink of making a free BIOS a standard option for computers. Serious obstacles remain, including a lack of resources and resistance from some proprietary chipset manufacturers and OEMs, but the advantages of LinuxBIOS indicate that its availability to the average computer buyer may be only months away.
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Member since:2005-07-06
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Or how many BIOS vendors are hugging onto the last bit of monopolistic position that they have, which allow them to screw everyone over.
Sure, EFI is 'technologically nice' but when it comes to real world, nothing beats OpenFirmware (which is what OpenBIOS is implementing).
Personally, I'd love to see motherboard and hardware vendors move completely over to OpenBIOS, then finally we would start to see fixes being released alot quicker than the current proprietary process.
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2006-02-01
Is there any comparisons of LinuxBIOS vs say EFI?
I know EFI has been around for a long time and has been trying to get pushed but hardware vendors are reluctant.
I wonder what it's like for LinuxBIOS.
Would be interesting to get some more information about them, seeing as the BIOS isn't something that's really discussed much, compared to the OS and hardware anyway.