Elsewhere I got the advice to get an amd mainboard and mount a nvidia
graphics card? Agree? Which graphics card?
You can disable UEFI, using only EFI.
I had an amd athlon x2 cpu on the mainboard. It was fast enough for one
virtualbox system. It seems there are not many vendors of the gigabyte
mainboard in europe.
david, when you write 'short of libreboot', you mean because libreboot not
available?
To me it looks like a relevant mainboard. Which cpu if I want integrated
graphic card and the lowest priced duo core?
Not for it is Libreboot available, yeah (wellthat's some terrible grammar
on my part).
And I forgot to note that Coreboot still needs to be flashed onto the mobo
after buying if you don't mind that. Instructions seem to be here on
http://www.coreboot.org/Board:gigabyte/ga-b75m-d3h
Short of Libreboot, but anyway
http://www.coreboot.org/Board:gigabyte/ga-b75m-d3h
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=MTg1MTM
(OK, that's short of already-available Libreboot options, but if you want a
non-server Mobo, or an Intel iGPU, or a Mini-ITX case.would be a
is uefi a non-free BIOS program or just a standard??
so could libreboot implement a uefi BIOS???
I want a mainboard with a cpu. An ordinary mainboard that rather runs on much
than less free software. Think penguin's pc is not all free software, but
likely more free software than most computers.
"Can you get mainboards with no uefi and tpm?"
i think most of the AMD motherboards do not use TPM's (Correct me if i am
wrong)
as for uefi i don’t think you can find a modern x86 computer without a uefi
BIOS
unless you can install libreboot on it
I have no idea about UEFI. You say UEFI is the recommended way. What is the
difference between installing in UEFI and BIOS mode? And why the former is
the recommended one?
Sorry for interfering but we must also note UEFI can either be good or
evil, depending on how it's implemented. Good UEFI implementations
deserve to be called Secure Boot, evil UEFI implementations are called
Restricted Boot.
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UEFI is a specification
which has been implemented on some machines to do some bad things like
preventing booting other operating systems:
(thats what i got from wikipedia anyway)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface
Thank you. Can't I ask about ordinary mainboards, that are known to enable a
higher level of free software? Those listed are libreboot but apart from
that, nothing I want. There are a lot of parameters. Price, performance, free
software, libreboot, coreboot, eufi, intel, amd. I had this
currently those are the only Desktop motherboard Libreboot supports
"There are a lot of parameters. Price, performance, free software, libreboot,
coreboot, eufi, intel, amd."
Price:
the Desktop motherboards i listed are quite expensive
(cost me about £100 second hand including postage from
My pc mainboard stopped working. Likely the power supply too. It was an amd
athlon ii x2 250. What mainboard and cpu should I buy, if I want highest
level of free software and similar performance? I cannot get a mainboard
without uefi etc? Can you get mainboards that are not new but unused?
if you want a desktop your best bet freedom(and performance) wise is a ASUS
KGPE-D16 (max of 256GB RAM!) or a ASUS KFSN4-DRE (max of 64GB of RAM)
as you can run them with a free BIOS using libreboot
what are you wanting this pc for?
as the CPU, amount of RAM etc will depend on what you need
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