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LinuxBIOS available with X11 GUI

Posted by Vivek on Thursday March 8, 07 @1:40 pm

Wow this is really cool news.

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

Linux BIOS in action

Alan has posted video of his work. This setup includes
=> LinuxBIOS

=> Linux kernel

=> BusyBox

=> Tiny X11 server called Kdrive

=> The Matchbox window manager

=> rxvt - a colour vt102 terminal emulator

All of the above software packed on a 2MB flash chip :).

Video

Found via Uwe Hermann blog

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Discussion on This Article:

  1. xio Says: March 8th, 2007 at 6:02 pm

    Awsome, these guys are genious.

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