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BIOS' Days Are Numbered
Ninja Master Gara writes "While this article shows Phoenix expanding the uses of the bios, ZDNet UK reports Intel is looking to get rid of it altogether, to be replaced with the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) as announced at the Intel Developer Forum. EFI promises a considerable amount of flexibility to system control and startup, legacy support, and programability. And it gets rid of text mode only start up too."
Goodbye floppy drive.
Well the Bios almost outlived the floppy ;).
There is nothing wrong with being gay. It's getting caught where the trouble lies.
I mean, even my 1992 Toyota uses EFI . Way to keep up with the times, Intel!
Karma: Incomprehensible (Mostly affected by posting at +5, reading at -1, and metamoderating everything unfair.)
If I wanted glorified startup screens I'd boot up my AIX RS/6000 thank you very much.
ah? why? rs/6000 plays Thus Speak Zarathustra at startup?
Because jpg pr0n looks better than ascii pr0n?
*I used to think ppl that got giddy on ascii pr0n back in the bbs days were *WEIRD*
Do you drive through canyons with your folks on vacations and pretend you're flying in the canyons of the death star?
Yeah, and I wear my Darth Vader helmet over my acne-pocked face, and rasp out threats in an impossibly high-pitched "James Earl Jones" voice.
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
I tried to make sense of this sentence but my internal parser core dumped. Luckily my newly installed Phoenix Core Management Environment diagnosed the problem as a gramatically challenged sentence.
"She's a West Texas girl, just like me" - G.W Bush Iraqis
3 second Linux-rom boots on PCs by replacing the BIOS ROM ... I can't seem to find them via google, though
Have you tried just putting Linux and BIOS into a Google query? First two results: The LinuxBIOS Home Page and Slashdot | Linux BIOS.
Will I retire or break 10K?