my next /g/aming ri/g/

My X60s is getting quite old, and I'd like to get another laptop (or netbook or tablet) without all the backstabbing BIOS and firmware that seem to be quite common on most consumer devices; before someone (Cudder) brings it up, I have better things to do than audit a four megabyte binary. I know two of you were working on hackboard, and there's a bunch of FOSS devboard projects cropping up all over the place; I'm wondering if there's an actual usable laptop using one of them somewhere on the horizon.

Also I don't mind if it's only 1 or even 0.5 GB of RAM and a somewhat slow CPU, the most resource-intensive application I ever use is probably eight megabytes and constantly swapping the web browser (because not all websites work in elinks, sadly).

Anyway, time to catch up on my sleep.

Also it looks like the Beaglebone Black will be the first decently usable board (not requiring blobs (except maybe for 3d accel, but I don't care about that)) for which support will hit mainline for both uboot (it's already in) and the kernel (apparently in january or so).

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let's start a business for verifiable hardware design, I'm sure we'll have lots of big business and military buyers just dying to have the assurance that their anuses aren't being proctologized by competitors/political frenemies.