Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 8th Feb 2007 22:07 UTC, submitted by Floris Lambrechts
Privacy, Security, Encryption More than one million devices have already shipped with LinuxBIOS, and the growth is continuing. In his interview for the upcoming FOSDEM 2007 conference, LinuxBIOS creator Ronald Minnich talks about vendor support, the One Laptop Per Child BIOS, and his reluctance towards EFI.
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RE[2]: EFI vs LinuxBIOS
by hhcv on Thu 8th Feb 2007 23:03 UTC in reply to "RE: EFI vs LinuxBIOS"
hhcv
Member since:
2005-11-12

Everyone with a sane mind wouldn't do such a nonsense.
And people with a sane one would go compile their own kernels, for example?

Sometimes I think us non-windows users are a bunch of masochists.

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RE[3]: EFI vs LinuxBIOS
by Oliver on Thu 8th Feb 2007 23:16 in reply to "RE[2]: EFI vs LinuxBIOS"
Oliver Member since:
2006-07-15

Comparing apples with oranges is usus nowadays I guess?

>And people with a sane one would go compile their own kernels, for example?

But this is to some extent true too, nobody in BSD would do it without need for example ;)
But the nonsense begins, if you're seeing a need in overclocking your hardware. Some people call this an error in reasoning.

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RE[4]: EFI vs LinuxBIOS
by Dima on Thu 8th Feb 2007 23:46 in reply to "RE[3]: EFI vs LinuxBIOS"
Dima Member since:
2006-04-06

But the nonsense begins, if you're seeing a need in overclocking your hardware.

A few years ago, I bought a motherboard with an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ processor. But, it would not run at 2GHz by default. At the store, employees made it very clear that I would need to change the clock speed from 100 to 133 - and even the box with the CPU mentioned the number 133.

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RE[4]: EFI vs LinuxBIOS
by brewin on Thu 8th Feb 2007 23:51 in reply to "RE[3]: EFI vs LinuxBIOS"
brewin Member since:
2005-06-30

"Some people call this an error in reasoning."
Some people call it getting your money's worth.

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RE[3]: EFI vs LinuxBIOS
by flywheel on Fri 9th Feb 2007 12:00 in reply to "RE[2]: EFI vs LinuxBIOS"
flywheel Member since:
2005-12-28

Funny, I haven't compled a single kernel in ten years ;)

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