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<div style="font-size:1.8em">10 years!</div>
<div style="font-size:1.8em">10 years!</div>
Anton Borisov [http://www.h-online.com/open/The-Open-Source-BIOS-is-Ten-An-interview-with-the-coreboot-developers--/features/112353 interviewed the original developers] ([http://www.heise.de/open/Zehn-Jahre-LinuxBIOS-Coreboot--/artikel/121679 german version]) as the Open Source PC firmware celebrates '''ten years of activity'''!
Anton Borisov [http://www.h-online.com/open/The-Open-Source-BIOS-is-Ten-An-interview-with-the-coreboot-developers--/features/112353 interviewed the original developers] ([http://www.heise.de/open/Zehn-Jahre-LinuxBIOS-Coreboot--/artikel/121679 german version]) as the Open Source PC firmware celebrates '''ten years of activity'''!
<div style="font-size:1.8em">coreboot v4.1 has been released!</div>
We celebrate our recent 10 year anniversary by releasing [[Coreboot_4.1|coreboot v4.1]].
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Revision as of 11:21, 1 April 2009

coreboot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware) you can find in most of today's computers. It performs just a little bit of hardware initialization and then executes a so-called payload.

We currently support ca. 200 different mainboards (v3: 16, v2: 120, v1: 64, some duplicates included).


10 years!

Anton Borisov interviewed the original developers (german version) as the Open Source PC firmware celebrates ten years of activity!


coreboot v4.1 has been released!

We celebrate our recent 10 year anniversary by releasing coreboot v4.1.

  • 100% Free Software (GPL), no royalties, no license fees!
  • Fast boot times (3 seconds to Linux console)
  • Avoids the need for a slow/buggy/proprietary BIOS
  • Written in C, contains virtually no assembly code
  • Supports many mainboards, devices, and payloads

  • Desktop PCs, servers, clusters, thin clients
  • Clusters, high-performance computing
  • Embedded solutions, STBs/HTPC, appliances, terminals
  • No-moving-parts solutions (ROM chip as "disk")
  • Non-standard scenarios (e.g. FPGA in Opteron socket)

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