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Stallman has a post about his Thinkpad X60, one of the very few laptops where you can install a totally open BIOS.

The Librem laptop was another attempt at this, but it failed pretty badly. They couldn't get around a lot of the "binary blob" issues with modern hardware. They're attempt may in fact show that truly open firmware on modern x86_64/amd64 machines may be impossible.

There's Novena, but I believe that's ARM based (which is possibly the best bet for truly open hardware today)




What is awful about that one is that they even skip microcode updates.




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