Libreboot – A free BIOS or UEFI replacement

Post by pgeorgi » Sun, Oct 09, 2016, 12:11 PM UTC

dschuetz wrote: post #39

While I agree that most BIOS and/or UEFI installations are just... unacceptable, I don't think that a replacement will do just fine. The initialisation process should be as streamlined as possible, but allow as much control as possible. I would not call a multi-staged boot process "streamlined", when you argue that coreboot is the fastest way to boot up a computer. And then again, the whole process is repeated by the…

Post by mycall » Sun, Oct 09, 2016, 3:38 PM UTC

fnoobor wrote: post #53

cryptarch wrote: post #43

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I would not recommend their services at all, although I own one of their products. Leah is extremely unresponsive, when I ordered mine it took over 2 months for it to be shipped with no prior indication of this (it should've taken at most 3 weeks to arrive at my home), and any email response from Minifree took at least 3 weeks. Oh, and Leah billed me UK taxes instead of Dutch taxes as per the EU webshop rules, so tha…

Regarding the taxes (referring to the EU only), Minifree didn't do anything wrong: If you buy hardware as an end-consumer, you're being billed the taxes of the originating country (in this case, the UK). That's different for most services, e.g. if you ship a laptop to Minifree and they just flash it and send it back, they have to bill the taxes of your country. If they do any of it differently, they're doing a mistak…

Post by colejohnson66 » Sun, Oct 09, 2016, 4:31 PM UTC

icebraining wrote: post #34

colejohnson66 wrote: post #22

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People who've worked at the FSF say it is very progressive and open to transgenders. The idea that they would fire someone for being trans is just outrageous.

The claim isn't exactly that: "A transgender employee at the FSF was being harassed by a transphobic colleague for being trans. The trans person, not the bully, was then fired when they stood up for themselves, because it was seen as trouble making while the bully remained silent."

Post by dschuetz » Sun, Oct 09, 2016, 7:35 PM UTC

pgeorgi wrote: post #61

dschuetz wrote: post #39

While I agree that most BIOS and/or UEFI installations are just... unacceptable, I don't think that a replacement will do just fine. The initialisation process should be as streamlined as possible, but allow as much control as possible. I would not call a multi-staged boot process "streamlined", when you argue that coreboot is the fastest way to boot up a computer. And then again, the whole process is repeated by the…

There are stages because there are multiple situations in which code has to run in: without RAM, with RAM, ... I'm curious, what do you propose instead?

Post by cryptarch » Tue, Oct 11, 2016, 6:07 PM UTC

mycall wrote: post #63

fnoobor wrote: post #53

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Regarding the taxes (referring to the EU only), Minifree didn't do anything wrong: If you buy hardware as an end-consumer, you're being billed the taxes of the originating country (in this case, the UK). That's different for most services, e.g. if you ship a laptop to Minifree and they just flash it and send it back, they have to bill the taxes of your country. If they do any of it differently, they're doing a mistak…

I thought most mainboards let you flash your own BIOS/UEFI using USB. Why ship a laptop?