On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Peter Lister wrote:
people first see "LinuxBIOS", misinterpretation does seem to be common. "LinuxBIOS" does *not* mean "a BIOS for Linux" - for one thing, Linux does needs no BIOS. The project's original intention was to put Linux in a mobo rom *instead* of a legacy PC BIOS.
it's this way for historical reasons and it almost seems too late to change. But Garzik really called this freebios so there's no reason not to pick that up at some point.
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