> You seem to be quite knowledable about the Gnu os. What is Gnu's > or the FSF's position on the bios and bios flashes ? Certainly that > is firmware. If I hadn't flashed the bios on this machine I would > have a 320 gig paperweight.
The FSF's main goal is universal software freedom, so, surely, that includes firmware too. I highly recommend reading or viewing Richard Stallman's essays/lectures or paying a visit to the Education portal on gnu.org if you want to learn more. There's a /very/ WIP, but promising free BIOS, called coreboot (http://www.coreboot.org/Welcome_to_coreboot), which is quite good, but at this moment supports only a small number of motherboards (230). It is on GNU's high priority projects list at the moment. -- Serge Hooge () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
