I always wanted to build my own desktop PC with Libreboot, and thanks
to this product NOT being with Libreboot, I now have an excuse to
continue building! :D
I need not be tempted by fancy things!
Alright, then I understand better your point of view. ;)
> There are applications where performances are essential.
For sure, which is what I meant by "in general." However, I talk to many
ordinary desktop users who base their decisions not on the requirements
of specific applications but on "old=bad, new=good" and purchase laptops
with 16 GB that they
There are applications where performances are essential. I do use my 16 GB
of RAM to run some of my research prototypes. In that regard, Libretrend is
appealing to me even if it is worse that Libreboot computers from a freedom
perspective. I only suggested Libretrend to be more honest,
> "coreboot is not necessary because libreboot exists"
>
> Libreboot uses coreboot code. Without "blob" indeed but it wouldn't exist at
> all without the coreboot effort.
This is true, but I was referring not to coreboot's development but to
its use. To be more clear I could have said that the
"coreboot is not necessary because libreboot exists"
Libreboot uses coreboot code. Without "blob" indeed but it wouldn't exist at
all without the coreboot effort.
I am not claiming that every blob in coreboot is malicious. As usual with
proprietary software: maybe it is, maybe it is not, and you are not allowed
to know. That does not inspire confidence...
This is why we wouldn't make the same mistake, of releasing a proprietary
BIOS, again.
Are you aware that coreboot integrates the so-called "Firmware Support
Package"? The Libreboot FAQ says that "the proprietary FSP blob cannot be
trusted at all": https://libreboot.org/faq.html#fsp
