@lispi314 >They don't simply buy whatever has acceptable specs & expandability that doesn't break the bank when buying?
It really isn't hard to take a look at the product page and see "oh the NICs won't work properly as they're broadcom".

There is typically almost always the same kind of motherboard with the same price with decent NIC's also available even with limited availability.

>The KGPE-D16 is kind of aging a bit these days, depending one what one intends to do.
It's plenty fast for all reasonable usages.

I'm wondering how hard 4 socket motherboards would be to port for twice the power (boards with an already supported chipset are report-ably an easy coreboot port).

>I wonder how hard it'd be to use the ISO-building software to make Free Software-only ISOs.
It's not too hard, but it'll be easier to just use a freedom-respecting distro instead than isn't going to accelerate down the slippery slope of proprietary software even harder eventually.