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Michael Larabel reports via Phoronix
Librecore is a new project aiming to be a new Coreboot downstream with a focus remaining on providing fully-free system firmware. Separately, Minifree/Libreboot has been accused (and admitted by Leah Rowe) to not paying a vendor for a completed contract.
Librecore was formed due to "[Libreboot lead developer Leah Rowe] alienating large portions of the community, plus the stagnant and hard to use libreboot firmware and build system." With Librecore, they are aiming to use industry-standard tools and build environments. Another different design decision is pursuing Petitboot as the payload for a more modern and useful interface over GRUB as a payload.
[An] email from [Timothy Pearson of Raptor Engineering, one of the developers involved with the formation of Librecore, says]
We strongly recommend that no person do any business with Minifree or its founder Leah Rowe, as they do not honor their legally binding contracts.
The author notes that Rowe sent him an email that attempts damage control while admitting that she gyped Pearson.
(Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Tuesday January 24 2017, @09:53PM
A modern bloatloader should have a cool 3D graphics UI like you would expect from Hollywood. This will give the user a feeling of security. Modular 3D drivers can be installed into the bootloader. To keep it all current, it should support automatic updates from the manufacturer, of course. ("boot delayed while updating graphics drivers, please wait . . .")
To improve upon GRUB's ability to modify things at the bootloader screen, a modern bootloader should allow remote access to control the boot process from one of your other computers that is operational.
What other best / worst ideas can you think of ?
A new bootloader project needs to have a marketing and graphic artist running the team. What kind of booting experience does the end user want? This question has not been given the attention it deserves.
/s
Infinity is clearly an even number since the next higher number is odd.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 24 2017, @11:31PM
A good bootloader/BIOS/UEFI should follow the standards.
A good one should let me at all of switches.
A good one should not lock me out of those.
A good one should get the H out of the way once the OS is up and running.
(Score: 4, Funny) by boltronics on Wednesday January 25 2017, @07:53AM
A few years from now, somebody will look back on this joke and it won't be funny anymore.
It's GNU/Linux dammit!
(Score: 2) by Justin Case on Wednesday January 25 2017, @10:17AM
Indeed. Back in the early days of the web I remember somebody bitching that the way things were going, we were going to end up with a Font Negotiation Protocol.
I think we're just about there!
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday January 25 2017, @05:21PM
Maybe you remember a joke back in ancient times about being able to get a computer virus by email. You could get the virus by merely reading the email.
Ah, ha ha! It was so funny. Because, in general, people on Usenet understood how email was just text. Sometimes using MIME extensions, it could have attachments.
But then came Microsoft who turned this joke into reality.
A bootloader with installable 3D graphics support? Hmmmm.
Infinity is clearly an even number since the next higher number is odd.