https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/10/10/system76-will-begin-s... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21216195 System76 will start taking pre-orders for both the Galago Pro and Darter Pro laptops. The systems will ship out later in October, and include the company's Coreboot-based open source firmware which was previously teased at the 2019 Open Source Firmware Conference. (Coreboot, formerly known as LinuxBIOS, is a software project aimed at replacing proprietary firmware found in most computers with a lightweight firmware designed to perform only the minimum number of tasks necessary to load and run a modern 32-bit or 64-bit operating system.) What's so great about ripping out the proprietary firmware included in machines like this and replacing it with an open alternative? To begin with, it's leaner. System76 claims that users can boot from power off to the desktop 29% faster with its Coreboot-based firmware. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21213897 https://github.com/dickmao/nnhackernews https://forum.dlang.org/ https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed https://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-pdp-7-where-unix-began.html