Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 27th Feb 2007 16:42 UTC, submitted by Luis
GNU, GPL, Open Source "The GIGABYTE M57SLI-S4 is the first-ever desktop motherboard supported by a Free & Open Source BIOS, thanks to AMD engineer Yinghai Lu who released GPL-licensed code last month. This state-of-the-art motherboard is based on the NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI chipset and AMD's latest Socket AM2." I am not exactly a Free Software evangelist, but I am a strong proponent of open BIOS, for various reasons. Good thing, this.
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Jack Malmostoso
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2006-01-20

If this were from Intel, we could have a truly 100% free software system, from the BIOS, to the kernel, to the fully accelerated 3D drivers (Integrated Intel, obviously).

Nonetheless, just one more step in the right direction!

csasso Member since:
2007-02-27

But if I buy this mother-board and an Intel graphic-card, I will be able to have a PC that runs on all free drivers, won't I?

Thank you! chris

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