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First desktop motherboard supported by LinuxBIOS: GIGABYTE M57SLI-S4

Sunday, February 25, 2007

The GIGABYTE M57SLI-S4 is the first-ever desktop motherboard supported by a Free & Open Source BIOS, thanks to AMD engineer Yinghai Lu who released GPL-licensed code last month. This state-of-the-art motherboard is based on the NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI chipset and AMD's latest Socket AM2.
As mentioned in the article, this really is a huge step forward in the quest for a "completely Free & Open Source general-purpose computer that enables users to have full control over their own hardware." You can read more about the motherboard @ gmane.linux.kernel. For those interested in the board, you can check it out @ Newegg! Here are some quick specs on the board:
  • Support for AMD Athlon (Socket AM2) 64 X2, Athlon 64 FX, and Athlon 64 processors
  • 2X PCI Express x16 slots
  • 3X PCI Express x1 slots
  • 2X PCI slots
  • 3X 1394a (FireWire) ports
  • 10X USB 2.0
  • 16GB maximum memory
  • SATA RAID
  • 6X SATA 3Gb/s slots.
posted by linnerd40, Sunday, February 25, 2007


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