Coreboot

June 16, 2012

Posted By:  x414e54

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For this Ubuntu laptop it would be great to use an AMD processor (either APU or separate Radeon) and Coreboot (www.coreboot.org). Coreboot is essential to include on new Linux based systems.

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  • Jul 8, 2012     Comment Link

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    Posted By: thesheep

    There are two main advantages about Coreboot, depending on whether you are more of a practical person or you pursue pure ideals (most people are somewhere in the middle).

    The idealist advantage of Coreboot is that it's Free Software. Apart from supporting the efforts of programmers who work on it, you also receive the complete source code for inspection, you can make modifications as you see fit and you are sure there are no ugly hacks or backdoors there. (Remember how all of the AMI bioses had a universal password you could use to override the user-provided password? Secure until it leaked.) You are no longer at the mercy of your hardware vendor.

    The more practical advantage is that Coreboot provides some really cool features, among them the possibility of actually putting the kernel in your BIOS (http://www.coreboot.org/Linux), speeding up the boot process a lot. It will also keep on being developed and supported by the community -- it will only improve with time.
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  • Jun 21, 2012     Comment Link

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    Posted By: William_L

    x414e54, thanks for the Coreboot idea.  Could you give me more specifics about what you like about Coreboot?