Sunday, April 1, 2007

First desktop motherboard supported by LinuxBIOS: GIGABYTE M57SLI-S4

The GIGABYTE M57SLI-S4 is the first-ever desktop motherboardsupported by a Free & Open Source BIOS, thanks to AMD engineer Yinghai Lu who released GPL-licensed code last month. This state-of-the-artmotherboard is based on the NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI chipset and AMD'slatest Socket AM2.
This motherboard can be obtained today from many retail and onlinestores and the source code for the BIOS can be downloaded from the LinuxBIOS SVN server.
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