Having open source BIOS is not only good when you want to overclock your machine. Whole lot more possibilities open before programmers.

The thing with AMD processors is that currently only Intel graphic interfaces have free drivers. Until ATi or nVidia free their drivers, Intel will be the only game in town for free software.

I am seeing more and more motherboard brands changing their flash utility to work in Windows. The Linux community does not need an open source BIOS. What we need is a flash utility similar to Windows flash utility that works in Linux and/or DOS.

An open source BIOS, will hurt the motherboard industry because not all motherboards work the same. People favorite a brand more than the other brands, so the selection of motherboards that the open source BIOS project supports will be very, very narrow.

Actually, there's not much to see here. LinuxBIOS has supported several desktop motherboards for ages. This is far from being the first. Also, the board is not shipped with LinuxBIOS (you have to download and compile it yourself), and Gigabyte doesn't even acknowledge that the board can use LinuxBIOS on it's webpage - loading it on will probably nuke your warranty.

Finally, it's far from complete support - it's only just enough to get the board up and running, if that. All the "interesting" stuff (ie: the stuff that would actually be of interest to anyone trying to fix bugs or increase performance) is still only available under NDA from both NV and AMD. These parts will almost certainly never be made public, so you can forget about any extra special tweaks through LinuxBIOS. Heck, you can probably even forget about most of the tweaks that are available in the shipped Award BIOS as well.

i really want this mainbord inside my pc :D

Is there a vendor packaging this board into a Linux machine yet ?

http://www.freeappliances.org/