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It should be distro agnostic, yes. It’s a bios replacement so once it hands off to the OS it should be chill
The reason why many people like coreboot is ownership over your system. The codes freely available to you, what it does is known, and this it’s harder to backdoor.
As for functionality, by my understanding, this allows for updates way past what manufacturers are willing to support. Making older hardware much more secure.
Other than support for older systems and peace of mind there’s not anything I’d know myself. It may be able to allow features that the bios doesn’t allow but the hardware supports as well but I don’t have any examples
I’ll admit, I’m a paranoid man, so peace of mind and ownership over my system is the main allure. Also, I hate branding, and love to remove it where possible. Coreboot allows this
This is wild I am so happy to see it. I tend to be hesitant to fanboy a company but here I can’t help myself. Step after step, most things framework do make it imposible not to.
Of course, as stated, this is just a dev board but the ability to just drop the boy into the 13 inch and have it going is wild. I’m increadibly excited to see what people can do with it and if it’s available for consumers, I’m excited to finally have a chance to try my hand at risc development