Libreboot and FSF News
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Long live Libreboot!
The former osboot project, started by the same founder as Libreboot, Leah Rowe, has today shut down; the osboot website now automatically redirects, via HTTP 301, to the libreboot website.
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Since 2020, Libreboot (and osboot) have both been through several reboots, forking off each other other to keep in sync. It was starting to become too much of a burden, which is the main reason the merger took place.
On November 14th, I (Leah Rowe) literally diffed all of Libreboot since the last reboot (of the Libreboot repository) and checked each one against osboot, adding whatever was missing from that in osboot. This then put the osboot project in sync with Libreboot, but in line with osboot and with the additional boards (plus scripts and so on) in osboot, compared to Libreboot pre-merge.
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Binary blob minimalisation policy [Ed: Last updated 15 November 2022]
In the beginning Libreboot intentionally de-blobbed coreboot, which is to say that it did not include binary blobs. Coreboot, on the other hand, requires binary blobs on most systems that it has support for. Libreboot’s entirely “free” version of coreboot consequently supported fewer mainboards.
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Sourceware infrastructure - A presentation and community Q-A
This event will be an opportunity for the community to get more information about the current and ongoing plans for the Sourceware infrastructure, and ask questions. The public meeting will be hosted on BigBlueButton and made available to the wider free software community via livestream.
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Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, November 18, starting at 12:00 EST (17:00 UTC)
Join the FSF and friends on Friday, November 18, from 12:00 to 15:00 EST (17:00 to 20:00 UTC) to help improve the Free Software Directory.