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Central New Hampshire Linux User Group meets on the first Monday of<br>
most months [*]. For our August 2nd meeting, we'll be at the Hopkinton<br>
Town Library (<a href="http://hopkintontownlibrary.org/" target="_blank"
style="color: rgb(20, 125, 186);">http://hopkintontownlibrary.<wbr>org</a>)
Community Room and will<br>
meet from 7 PM to 9 PM. Joseph Smith will make a presentation on
coreboot.<br>
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Joseph Smith has been tinkering with PC's since the 486 days, and using<br>
Linux about as long. Mechanically inclined and knowledgeable about PC<br>
hardware, he wanted to learn more about software so went to NHTI and got<br>
a certificate degree in CIS. He has always been a avid Red Hat/Fedora<br>
fan. He's employed as a Senior AS400 Operator at a well-known retailer's<br>
local headquarters. Joseph's interest in coreboot starting with<br>
tinkering on the X86 RCA RM4100. He had been looking for a good<br>
set-top-box to build Linux on for a while, but the ones out there just<br>
did not have the right hardware specs: either they did not have enough<br>
memory or they had a MIPS processor that just didn't cut it. The only<br>
problem was the proprietary bios. He started looking into other open<br>
source options and came across coreboot. He has been deeply involved<br>
with the coreboot project for over 5 years, specializing in developing<br>
for Intel chipsets and hardware.<br>
<br>
>From the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://www.coreboot.org/" target="_blank"
style="color: rgb(20, 125, 186);">http://www.coreboot.org</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>website, "Coreboot is is a Free<br>
Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware) you<br>
can find in most of today's computers. It performs just a little bit of<br>
hardware initialization and then executes a so-called payload. With this<br>
separation of hardware initialization and later boot logic, coreboot can<br>
scale from specialized applications run directly from firmware,<br>
operating systems in flash, and custom bootloaders to implementations of<br>
firmware standards like PCBIOS and EFI without having to carry features<br>
not necessary in the target application, reducing the amount of code and<br>
flash space required. We currently support 223 different mainboards."<br>
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In his CentraLUG presentation, Joseph plans to explain his background<br>
and how he got involved in coreboot, give a brief history of the<br>
coreboot project, discuss some of the current features and the tools<br>
which have come from the project, and talk about how the code process<br>
flows and how you (the audience) can start to develop coreboot. We'll<br>
try to hold some time for Q&A at the end.<br>
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The meeting will start at 7 PM at the Hopkinton Town Library. Directions<br>
can be found on the web site at<br>
<a href="http://www.hopkintontownlibrary.org/directions.htm"
target="_blank" style="color: rgb(20, 125, 186);">http://www.<wbr>hopkintontownlibrary.org/<wbr>directions.htm</a><br>
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More information on CentraLUG can be found at<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://centralug.org/"
target="_blank" style="color: rgb(20, 125, 186);">http://centralug.org</a>.
More<br>
information on GNHLUG can be found at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://gnhlug.org/" target="_blank"
style="color: rgb(20, 125, 186);">http://gnhlug.org</a><br>
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[*] Note there will be no CentraLUG meeting in September due to the<br>
Labor Day holiday.<br>
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