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Google Sponsors the LinuxBIOS project

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the guts-like-to-be-free-too dept.

Rockgod noted that "The LinuxBIOS project aims to take down the last barrier in Open Source systems by providing a free firmware (BIOS) implementation. LinuxBIOS celebrates its Sixth anniversary this year, and has an installed base of over 1 million LinuxBIOS systems. With the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, that number is expected to exceed 10 million users in 2007. LinuxBIOS supports 65 mainboards from 31 vendors in v1 and another 56 mainboards from 27 vendors in v2"

2 of 172 comments (clear)

  1. Re:why would a major manufacturer of motheboards by Laur · · Score: 5, Informative
    LinuxBIOS is not compatible with legacy DOS-based PC operating systems
    According to the ADLO page there is no reason that LinuxBIOS couldn't boot up DOS-based OSes with a bit of tweaking, it just seems that no one has bothered yet.
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  2. Re:Any place to buy the MOBO with lb pre-installed by Laur · · Score: 5, Informative

    Try starting with the Products page at LinuxBIOS.

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