I'm catching up on my reading, so there has been some delay since the last post to this thread.
One of the reasons why the LinuxBios project seems so large is that it attempts to satisfy the requirements of many different mother boards. Yet, it has not come up with a machine that is easily available. I don't see anything close to a desktop machine for the consumer yet. Is there a good reason why a single, perhaps custom, motherboard running LinuxBios would not be sufficient for, say, most desktop users ? The chipset could be selected so that there are no hiding places. If the Bios itself is socketed and replaceable, why should it not be a device that could be instantly on ? Ideally, an independent organization such as the FSF might certify a machine that is completely open...and therefore trustworthy. It wouldn't need to be backwards compatible with DOS nor would it run windows. It could skip cutting-edge graphics so that there should be no NDAs. Is that possible ? Thoughts ? -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
