[rescue] The best 'rescue' workstation

[Barry Keeney]

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > Now if only someone would get rid of the crappy BIOS...
> 
> Does anyone know what happened to the LinuxBIOS project?  I think that's
> the right name ... some outfit was working on replacing the PC BIOS
> altogether.  The downside was it had to be individually built for a
> specific hardware configuration ... the upside was, iirc, the machine
> would boot in something like three seconds.

  looks like it's still around:

http://wiki.linuxbios.org/index.php/Main_Page
or
http://www.linuxbios.org/

  But it looks like it's in flux. At one time related to
the sourceforge project "FreeBios", which looks kinda 
dead now, but linuxbios is still used on a few clusters 
at LANL and maybe a few other places. Doesn't look like
much development has been done on it for a while.

  Sounds like a good idea that people have lost interest
in. 

Barry Keeney
Chaos Consulting
email barryk at chaoscon.com

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