Motherboards + Beer: Virtual Event Addressing Coreboot / Open-Source Firmware Prospects

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Motherboards + Beer: Virtual Event Addressing Coreboot / Open-Source Firmware Prospects

Consulting firm 3mdeb that specializes in embedded systems with an emphasis on open-source firmware solutions like Coreboot is hosting an interesting virtual event later today...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=3mdeb-Firmware-Virtual-Event

[ezst036]

Motherboards + Beer, Michael you are living the dream.

[CochainComplex]

Nice Beer from Bamberg. Afaik this City has the highes brewery density in germany. A lot of old "micro"breweries. Batches are usually too small to cover export ambition's.

[tildearrow]

The good times when Michael used to drink beer and go to conferences...

[Jahimself]

Nice collection of motherboard. Those german beer are looking pretty appealing too

[Michael]

Nice Beer from Bamberg. Afaik this City has the highes brewery density in germany. A lot of old "micro"breweries. Batches are usually too small to cover export ambition's.

Schlenkerla is fairly easily available at specialty beer shops in the US... Though usually very costly at about $6 USD for 0,5L.

I like it but not a favorite, I just happened to get it by chance as the beers I ordered from a store some of them were out of stock so this batch they replaced the missing ones with some Schlenkerla, but I've had it before and it's nice but Rauchbier isn't a favorite.

[ayumu]

On motherboards: If some vendor made motherboards with coreboot, I'd buy and recommend these.

For some reason, ALL of them insist on proprietary fw. It's as if they hate money. Sure they are aware of the influence of developers and power users, who care about these things?

[cmsigler]

It's as if they hate money.

I'm right there with you. Pretty sure they love money, but apparently most money comes indirectly from OS (MSFT)/software vendors and hardware and systems manufacturers. Meaning if those companies cut a mobo manufacturer off....

[stiiixy]

"If you can't do a job one-handed, it's not worth doing!"

Me, with beer in hand.

[Guest]

On motherboards: If some vendor made motherboards with coreboot, I'd buy and recommend these.

For some reason, ALL of them insist on proprietary fw. It's as if they hate money. Sure they are aware of the influence of developers and power users, who care about these things?

IIRC all Chromebooks come with Coreboot pre-installed.