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    Open Source Hardware

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by theZoid, Jul 9, 2011.

  1. theZoid

    theZoid Notebook Savant

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    theZoid, Jul 9, 2011
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  2. Althernai

    Althernai Notebook Virtuoso

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    This is nice, but it's very unlikely to spread to consumer-grade stuff. CERN uses a lot of custom hardware (ASICs, FPGAs, etc.) and this will help share schematics between different labs. Consumer hardware is very thoroughly patent-protected.
     
    Althernai, Jul 10, 2011
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  3. debguy

    debguy rip dmr

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    It would already be a giant leap if we'd have OS BIOSes like coreboot in the near future. But that's unlikely to happen because manufacturers don't implement hardware specs accordingly to the standards and therefore need a proprietary BIOS with ugly hacks to hide and circumvent the flaws they built into the hardware.
    I think we'll be lucky if future BIOS replacements will still allow us to install a custom system at all instead of forcing us to use the pre-installed bloatware systems.
     
    debguy, Jul 11, 2011
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