Hi Carl-Daniel,
I'm just looking for a simple desktop solution that has as few 'closed'
components as possible.
Enough so that it can be more trustworthy.
Last year I wrote the related page, so it isn't up to date. Correct me on
the points that bother you though
and I'll fix it.
My question remains, which 64-bit, coreboot board would be best for a fully
functional desktop ?
Would you expect trouble with it ?
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl-Daniel Hailfinger" <[email protected]>
To: "Robert Vogel" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: [coreboot] Your Opinion: The Best Board for coreboot ?
On 19.03.2009 18:55, Robert Vogel wrote:
This weekend the Free Software Foundation is holding its annual
associates
meeting in Cambridge, Mass. Since they are mainly interested in
software issues, this project might not
interest them.
Anyway, the question is: Which board is best for coreboot ?
Best according to which metric? No closed source option ROMs? All
features working as well as with proprietary BIOS? Support for Windows
(after all, limiting a board to Linux only would make it non-free)?
http://groups.fsf.org/index.php/Project_Suggestion_for_an_Open_Machine
Two things strike me as rather odd:
- The FSF (or at least RMS) have demanded machines with completely free
firmware although the page suggests that never happened.
- The freeappliances.org page linked from the FSF Open Machine Project
page makes some rather questionable, confusing and incorrect claims. If
you have write rights to the FSF page you mentioned, please remove that
link to "related ideas". While probably not intended to be harmful, it
will confuse anyone trying to learn about building/using machines
without closed source code.
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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