2013/1/9 Svetoslav Trochev svetoslav.trochev@gmail.com:
Hi Everyone and Happy New Year.
This summer I'm planning to buy new laptop. Also ongoing debates related to UEFI transition and current implementation of 'Secure Boot' requirement imposed by Microsoft's Windows 8 certification got me thinking and I would like to share my idea and see how many people have similar thoughts. Basically boils down to create Coreboot Reference Hardware for development, testing and daily use of coreboot. Here is my plan (warning it is not very well thought through):
- See how many people are ready to buy new hardware and are interested to
work on coreboot advancement.
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What do you guys think? Am I completely crazy to believe that we can make material change in our industry?
Hi,
this seems to be exactly what these guys were doing: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreeSoftwareLaptop They even mention coreboot as their BIOS. Have you investigated what is going on with this project?
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Maciej Grela