coreboot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware) you can find in most of today's computers. It performs just a little bit of hardware initialization and then executes a so-called payload, for example a Linux kernel, FILO, GRUB2, OpenBIOS, Open Firmware, SmartFirmware, GNUFI (UEFI), Etherboot, ADLO (for booting Windows 2000 and OpenBSD), Plan 9, or memtest86.
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Ohloh Analysis Summary
- Mostly written in C
- Mature, well-established codebase
- Large, active development team
- Increasing year-over-year development activity
- Common Public License 1.0 may conflict with GPL
- Mozilla Public License 1.0 may conflict with GPL
Updated 03 Jul 2008 19:10 UTC
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- Homepage
- http://www.coreboot.org/Welcome_to_coreboot
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- 7 downloads
- Licensed under
- GNU General Public License 2.0
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GNU C Library, Perl, Vim, GNU Make, GNU GRUB, Linux Kernel 2.6, GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection, Bash, Subversion
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| Codebase | 662,536 |
| Effort (est.) | 183 Person Years |
| Avg. Salary | $ year |
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