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Re:System76 Will Ship Linux Laptops With Coreboot-Based Open... by isantop on Thursday October 10, 2019 @04:13PM (#21218692)
I can't answer the technical side of that really well (IIRC something about targetting different things or something), but I wanted to comment that the name (Coreboot without the C) is genius. There is an Oreboot sticker on my fridge.
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Re:System76 Will Ship Linux Laptops With Coreboot-Based Open... by skoocda on Friday October 11, 2019 @08:13PM (#21229543)
A bit of a double meaning here too:

Rust is actually just hematite (ferric oxide), which is a type of iron ore!

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