The Linux-oriented PC OEM, System76, has launched the Thelio Spark, its ‘quality starter desktop’. With a regular price of $999, it’s the cheapest out of the Thelio line-up. If you are quick ...

This means that there’s support for custom BIOS images such as coreboot, and in certain computers this also allows for overclocking, replacing WLAN hardware, and a number of other customizations.

Many architectures such as ARM eschew UEFI for something more like coreboot, linuxboot, or LK, where it boots a small Linux kernel that then kexec’s into a much larger kernel. However ...

The motherboard also includes a custom BIOS based on the Coreboot/SeaBIOS project, offering control over CPU speed, disk configuration, audio, fans, and more. Hilariously, there is an "HDD clicker ...