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'''About'''<br /><small>Find out more about LinuxBIOS.</small><hr />[[News]] | [[Press]] | [[History]] | [[Documentation]] | [[Contributors]]
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'''Developers'''<br /><small>Get involved! Help us make LinuxBIOS better!</small><hr />[[Development Guidelines]] | [https://openbios.org/roundup/linuxbios/ Issue Tracker]<br />[http://www.linuxbios.org/data/Options.html Configuration Options] | [[JTAG/BSDL Guide|JTAG]] | [[EHCI Debug Port]]
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'''Status'''<br /><small>Find out whether your hardware is already supported.</small><hr />[[Supported Motherboards]] | [[Supported Chipsets & Devices]]
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'''Vendors & Products'''<br /><small>Do you want to deploy LinuxBIOS? Buy LinuxBIOS solutions?</small><hr />[[Products]] | [[Clusters]] | [[Laptop]]
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'''Getting Started'''<br /><small>Download LinuxBIOS and get started!</small><hr />[[Download LinuxBIOS|Downloads]] | [[Payloads]] | [[Documentation#How-To.27s|Build Tutorials]]<br />[[Confirmed working svn revisions|Confirmed Working SVN Revisions]] | [[Misc]]
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'''Support'''<br /><small>Learn how to contact us and find help and support.</small><hr />[[Mailinglist]] | [[FAQ]] | [[Glossary]]
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Revision as of 19:24, 11 October 2006

LinuxBIOS is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS you can find in most of today's computers.

It performs just a little bit of hardware initialization and then executes one of many possible payloads, e.g. a Linux kernel, FILO, OpenBIOS, Etherboot, ADLO for booting Windows, memtest86 and many more.

Benefits

There are many reasons for using LinuxBIOS.

  • 100% Free Software BIOS (GPL)
  • No royalties or license fees!
  • Fast boot times (3 seconds from power-on to Linux console)
  • Avoids the need for a slow, buggy, proprietary BIOS
  • Runs in 32-Bit protected mode almost from the start
  • Written in C, contains virtually no assembly code
  • Supports a wide variety of hardware and payloads
  • Further features: netboot, serial console, remote flashing, ...

Use Cases & Deployments

LinuxBIOS can be (and is) deployed in a wide range of scenarios.

Quick Links

 About
Find out more about LinuxBIOS.
News | Press | History | Documentation | Contributors

Developers
Get involved! Help us make LinuxBIOS better!
Development Guidelines | Issue Tracker
Configuration Options | JTAG | EHCI Debug Port

Status
Find out whether your hardware is already supported.
Supported Motherboards | Supported Chipsets & Devices

Vendors & Products
Do you want to deploy LinuxBIOS? Buy LinuxBIOS solutions?
Products | Clusters | Laptop

Getting Started
Download LinuxBIOS and get started!
Downloads | Payloads | Build Tutorials
Confirmed Working SVN Revisions | Misc

Support
Learn how to contact us and find help and support.
Mailinglist | FAQ | Glossary
More than a million devices already run on LinuxBIOS!


News


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