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  I've been renovating an Antec Nine Hundred, which is the PC case I had twenty years ago. At some point I sold mine, and I've always regretted that. Then recently I found a seller with that same PC case in very good condition, who turned out to be a really nice guy. He said he always wanted it to end up with a serious buyer. So I completely stripped it, cleaned it out and reassembled it. Then I made a nice coreboot-powered machine out of it. This really brings me back to my hig...

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  @Linux@linuxrocks.online They're the last generation without Boot Guard, where coreboot has native raminit code, and where the ME firmware can be almost completely overwritten with 0xff. With all newer x86_64 hardware at least one of those points is no longer the case. I'd have to say that compared to ARM SoCs that are comparatively free/open, even the much more recent ones, Ivy Bridge is still *much* faster. A desktop with an i7-3770, for instance, can be used for almost anything, eve...