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posted by on Wednesday January 18 2017, @04:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-free-as-in-beer dept.

It doesn't look like the Talos Secure Workstation will see the light of day with it's crowdfunding campaign ending this week and it's coming up more than three million dollars short of its financing goal. [Editor note: It did not meet the funding goal.] Now there's another effort to offer a libre system but using off-the-shelf x86 hardware.

[...] Libreboot developer Leah Rowe is now launching a libre system out of the ashes of the Talos Secure Workstation. She wrote in an email to Phoronix, "It's a high-end desktop/server platform, available in either configuration. It also supports virtualization and PCI passthrough, unlike older systems, so Qubes would be compatible...TALOS looks set to fail. Crowd Supply has removed it from their homepage, and Raptor Engineering is writing up an announcement that TALOS is shutting down - they are going to link to Minifree and tell people to purchase Libreboot D16 from me."

But before getting too excited, this isn't a new platform but rather an existing AMD server motherboard that simply comes pre-loaded with Libreboot to free the firmware/BIOS and then loaded with Debian GNU/Linux. The desktop and server versions make use of an AMD Opteron 6272, a.k.a. the older 32nm "Interlagos" CPUs derived from Bulldozer and released back in 2011.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 19 2017, @03:43AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 19 2017, @03:43AM (#455875)

    Someone managed to create an "Amiga", check http://amigaonthelake.com/amigaone-x5000-system-first-encounters-bundle/ [amigaonthelake.com]
    The CPU is "old" (no idea when it was launched, maybe it wasn't so old then), but at least the price is not so high as this POWER8 project, USD 1840 for the base configuration, including box, video card, RAM, etc.

    If they managed to get this, there must be a way to get more, maybe even newer.