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- tenderstorm, on 10/12/2007, -13/+2Why they call it Linux bios? It can boot anything.
- cquinnd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Because another project already took OpenBIOS as a name? http://www.openbios.org
- sq377, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I think it was originally intended to just be for linux. One of the best features they added is for linux.
"Fast boot times (3 seconds from power-on to Linux console)"
"LinuxBIOS does whatever hardware initialization Linux doesn't do and lets Linux finish the hardware initialization."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_BIOS - siddhartha211, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Whats the diff between open + linux bios?
- thelastknowngod, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3@ sidd
open can mean a lot of different things... not just linux.
is there anything you can put linux on? - siddhartha211, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It says in the linux bios page that its intended for all OS's, just like openbios, not just linux...
- schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I've been finding it interesting that Google had invested in this [ http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/30/199208&from=rss ].
Google Sponsors the LinuxBIOS project
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| The LinuxBIOS project aims to take down the last barrier in Open
| Source systems by providing a free firmware (BIOS) implementation.
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http://addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&type=news&ID=31343
Let the Google PC (yes, conpiracy theorists again) craze begin... and the Googlers go abuzz.- mementh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Google just wants there computers running on as little power as possable.. and to have the utmost reliability.. thats the only reason why they invest.. because it can save them money with there server farms
- Anpheus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Maybe they just like having a fast boot on their servers in the event of catastrophic failure (complete shutdown)?
I can see how getting your server back online in 3 seconds as opposed to 30 seconds would be a benefit. Can't you? - Stonekeeper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4My theory on this is slightly different. I think Google know that MS is trying to lock in hardware manufacturers with Vista and Google are investing money in projects that wil ultimately lead to a seperate hardware platform. I doubt they themselves will do the manufacturing, however they want to make it as easy as possible for a company (probably chinese) to do it. Although the BIOS is a small part of this big picture, it's an extremely important one.
But I could be wrong! :)
- bjweeks, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2
- deeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I believe it is a little more than that:
http://www.linuxbios.org/Supported_Motherboards - Vouksh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2very little ASUS support... I was hoping to run this too, as my bios is incredibly slow due to the SATA-RAID setup I have to use...
- deeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I believe it is a little more than that:
- TheNik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Cool, cool.
- sampowers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1LinuxBIOS is a really important project for embedded and custom systems, such as the laptops from the OLPC project!
http://laptop.org/ - colincornaby, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"Ask anyone who understands the issue with the available BIOS options today and they'll tell you - nothing has changed in over a decade. Oh sure, there has been some minor improvements with regard to upgrading the BIOS version(s) perhaps, but the fact remains that any real innovation has fallen by the wayside. That is where LinuxBIOS is hopefully going to pick up the slack."
No real innovation? I suppose the author has forgotten about EFI then. My Intel Bad Axe motherboard uses EFI. - JonForTheWin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think this project is the perfect example of why we need GPLv3 so badly.
Imagine your motherboard would only run a LinuxBIOS digitally signed by the manufacturer. You have ZERO control. That's what will happen if this project takes off and you are not protected by GPLv3. It's a technical practical and moral issue, not a political one.- GMorgan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why, the TiVo issues simply do not exist with BIOS. You can guarantee there would be available open platforms simply because there'd be no monopoly. It'd then simply be a case of supporting the ones that are open. Besides the costs of locking down BIOS would be self defeating and the open platforms would be cheaper.
- merky1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wow, too bad the article didn't describe why this is a good thing. There should be links to the folks that are using this to boot linux DVR's faster, or maybe some of the embedded device projects.
I would expect an article on something as heavy as a bios replacement would just have done a little more research.- paulmdx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Agreed, it was a badly written article. It made some mild speculations, that was about it.
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