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Re:Libreboot: Open Letter to the Free Software Community by jandrese on Thursday April 06, 2017 @04:36PM (#14054350)
IMHO all of this personal drama is a sideshow compared to the inability to support modern Intel or AMD hardware. I know they're working on enabling ARM Chromebooks now, but without support for Intel or AMD it's hard to see how this project isn't dead in the water.
Re:Libreboot: Open Letter to the Free Software Community by azrazalea on Thursday April 06, 2017 @05:08PM (#14054632)
You act like that is the project's fault though.

The whole point of libreboot is to be a purely free software alternative and they can't do that with modern AMD/Intel.

Sure, that means the project will never be mainstream but it doesn't mean it is dead in the water.

Re:Libreboot: Open Letter to the Free Software Community by simcop2387 on Thursday April 06, 2017 @05:39PM (#14054879)
There's been some hacks recently that have managed to nerf the ME on sandy/ivybridge. It's still a blob but it disables a lot of the other functionality so there's hope for newer hardware.
Re:Libreboot: Open Letter to the Free Software Community by jandrese on Monday April 10, 2017 @01:41PM (#14080781)
Even if it is not their fault it is still their problem.
Re:Libreboot: Open Letter to the Free Software Community by Taek on Thursday April 06, 2017 @05:25PM (#14054780)
If more people were willing to take the step to arm and sacrifice the performance, this could move forward faster.

And there's a strong security reason to do so. I am motivated to buy an Arm machine which will be soley responsible for my:

+ Email

+ Banking

+ Cryptocurrency

Because none of those take too much power, and they are all very security sensitive.

Re:Libreboot: Open Letter to the Free Software Community by abecedarius on Thursday April 06, 2017 @05:44PM (#14054923)
Is there a favorite one I can buy now? Or a least unfavored?
Re:Libreboot: Open Letter to the Free Software Community by milcron on Thursday April 06, 2017 @09:29PM (#14056313)
For now I think the best completely-open device is Bunnie Huang's Novena laptop: https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena

The software and motherboard schematics are totally open. It includes an mPCIe wifi card (Ath9k) specifically to avoid binary blob firmware.

Re:Libreboot: Open Letter to the Free Software Community by abecedarius on Thursday April 06, 2017 @10:40PM (#14056650)
Thanks -- I'd heard of that but didn't realize it was still/again for sale.
Re:Libreboot: Open Letter to the Free Software Community by timonovici on Friday April 07, 2017 @01:11AM (#14057287)
Asus Chromebook C100 Flip, but with a wifi dongle - if you want something new.

If something refurbished is okay, go for a X200; they are pretty good machines. Here's the best part - a Chromebook, without the proprietary Mali drivers, it slow as a piece of shit; an X200 - I can watch a tear-free full-HD movie while compiling something in the background, with both cores at 100%.

Libiquity, Tehnoetic and Vikings still sell those laptops. Or flash one yourself, it's not that hard, and you need like.. 100$ worth of equipment.

Re:Libreboot: Open Letter to the Free Software Community by easuter on Friday April 07, 2017 @05:01PM (#14063479)
> + Cryptocurrency

LOL. I see a "Sorry for your loss" in your future.

Re:Libreboot: Open Letter to the Free Software Community by gcb0 on Thursday April 06, 2017 @05:30PM (#14054809)
> wants a free cpu

> gives money to companies that sell very closed cpus.

> blame people making some closed cpus free.

:(

Re:Libreboot: Open Letter to the Free Software Community by seanp2k2 on Thursday April 06, 2017 @05:41PM (#14054898)
Then this continues for years and people wonder why no one is making free CPUs

Double :<

Re:Libreboot: Open Letter to the Free Software Community by jandrese on Monday April 10, 2017 @01:38PM (#14080763)
If someone wants to make a free CPU that is comparable to an i5 or a Ryzen I will be all over that. I'm not as interested in some weird CPU that I can't run most of my software on.