linux on a motherboard?

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 12 Dec 2016 11:30:56 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

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> On 12 December 2016 at 11:29, thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I seem to recall there was, or was going to be, Linux literally running on
> > motherboards?  Presumably it would be an option to boot into some minimal
> > CLI.  Did this notion not prevail?
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> (?)
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> All PC OSes run on motherboards. That's how computers work.

Maybe the OP was thinking of Linux as firmware?  That sort of how many 
"appliances" work.

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