Purism's PureBoot Advancing, Closer To Shipping With Their New Laptops

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Purism's PureBoot Advancing, Closer To Shipping With Their New Laptops

Announced earlier this year was Purism PureBoot for the company's bundle of safeguards for protecting a user's boot process by having Intel ME disabled, Coreboot in place of a proprietary system BIOS, a USB Librem Key as their security token, and other mechanisms for securing the boot process and preventing theft/rootkits/security risks...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Purism-PureBoot-Progress

[M@GOid]

Off Topic: hey Michael , did you see the new Raspberry Pi opponent?

Looks interesting, Atom 64bits, 2GB RAM, 16 eMMC, WiFi, Bluetooth, USB3, $34:

https://dlidirect.com/products/atomic-pi

[Michael]

Off Topic: hey Michael , did you see the new Raspberry Pi opponent?

Looks interesting, Atom 64bits, 2GB RAM, 16 eMMC, WiFi, Bluetooth, USB3, $34:

https://dlidirect.com/products/atomic-pi

Alrewady ordered one for benchmarking

[bemerk]

It would be nice to see that work on all kinds of devices other than librem devices.

[edwaleni]

Alrewady ordered one for benchmarking

Up! has been selling an SBC with this SOC for a couple of years but at a much higher price ($119) in the Pi format.

It has been well tested with PTS and results for it are on openBenchmarking.org.

It will be interesting to see how AtomicPi compares because Intel based SBC's have not had this price point before.

https://up-board.org/up/specifications/