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Coreboot 4.12 Released - Drops Older Intel / AMD Platforms
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Originally posted by madscientist159 View Post
Just saw this now. So I actually use a couple of these machines -- my daily driver is some RX5xx series card (I think it's a 580, lspci isn't too helpful), and the other one that's mainly used for video editing work is a Navi GPU on a large 4k display. I tend to use Debian (old habits) but Fedora is very nice on these machines too. Of course, there's the usual distros too -- Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL, Gentoo, Void, and some lesser known ones like Adelie Linux. Overall distro support is really good IMO, definitely the best out of any open ISA...
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Originally posted by madscientist159 View Post
Just saw this now. So I actually use a couple of these machines -- my daily driver is some RX5xx series card (I think it's a 580, lspci isn't too helpful), and the other one that's mainly used for video editing work is a Navi GPU on a large 4k display. I tend to use Debian (old habits) but Fedora is very nice on these machines too. Of course, there's the usual distros too -- Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL, Gentoo, Void, and some lesser known ones like Adelie Linux. Overall distro support is really good IMO, definitely the best out of any open ISA...
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Originally posted by andyprough View Post
I looked at it last year and wasn't happy with the available distros or the available graphics card drivers at the time. Can you tell us which distro you are using and which graphic card? Thanks!
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I completely agree with you on security aspect. This is just on a desktop that I use for experimenting/testing; not a production server or laptop that has valuable data on it.
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Originally posted by scratchi View PostWhat I really like to show off to people is KolibriOS inside the BIOS. It's a small OS that fits on a 1.44MB floppy, so you can append the floppy image to your coreboot rom and seabios will load it from the rom. It takes like 2-3 seconds to boot (I'm using a crusty old pentium, might be faster on better proc), connects to network, has bunch of small games, text editor, webview browser and some other stuff. If it only had an SSH client, that would be really sweet. But good payload to have incase the SSD/HDD pops, you can still have a somewhat working PC with no disk...good enough to at least boot into as a sanity check to make sure nothing else on the PC is busted. I like it
"Oh-Gee-Wow" should never replace "Oh-Wait-What".
Just because it's buried in the BIOS doesn't mean it can't be exploited by some crafty hacker for nefarious purposes.
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Originally posted by pgeorgi View Post...
I was guessing that more resources of the Coreboot team will go to Crombooks and we still have a lot of normal boards that would need a little polish (e.g. not having PS/2 kbd, no STR and the likes). But hopefully CPU vendors will wake up and also invest in a freedom firmware. It's just the better thing.
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Originally posted by caligula View Post
Sure, I just disagreed with the first "new" in new-CPU-new-socket-new-chipset
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Originally posted by caligula View Post
FWIW, Intel is sellling the same 14nm++++++ chip year after year. Is this fifth "generation" (= higher stock overlocking) of 14nm skylake already?
And to be honest I've stopped keeping track of Intel's 14nm shenanigans. They've missed their 10nm roadmap targets so many times now I remain shocked that investors haven't started kicking up a fuss. But then I remember that investors are, by and large, not engineering inclined and only care about profits...
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