LinusBIOS

[robertlaferla at comcast.net (Robert La Ferla)]

James Kramer wrote:
> I have read a short discussion about LinuxBIOS on the Free Software
> Foundation Bulletin.  The Foundation strongly encourages people to
> support AMD and Tyan because of their commitment to the project.  It
> sounds like a neat and worthwhile project.  Does anyone have
> experience with it?  It claims to cold-boot a computer in 3 seconds.
>   
I haven't yet but anyone interested in it should check out 
http://www.linuxbios.org. BTW - I read that Intel is moving away from 
the traditional BIOS with a new system called EFI (Extensible Firmware 
Interface).  In fact, the Apple Intel-based Macs use it.

http://www.intel.com/technology/efi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Firmware_Interface