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Libreboot is just a more strict about freedom coreboot from what I understand. As in it is literally a fork/derivative of coreboot.
by mordocai 10y ago
Libreboot is just a more strict about freedom coreboot from what I understand. As in it is literally a fork/derivative of coreboot.
- SEJeff 10y agoAh got it. With the recent GNU drama of libreboot I wonder how viable it really is as an ecosystem.
- yuhong 10y agoPersonally I think the FSF ideology taken too far is pretty ridiculous anyway.
- nfoz 10y agoYet here we are, discussing the secret OS that runs on its own chip and can't be disabled by the end-user. The world is a pretty ridiculous place, even with the best efforts of those ridiculous FSF zealots. I don't always agree with them and their methods and communication skills aren't perfect, and it's a shame to see coreboot/libreboot get fragmented etc... but imagine how backwards the world would be without some people taking things 'a bit too far sometimes'.
- milcron 10y agoAnother difference is that Coreboot is essentially a rolling release, whereas Libreboot periodically takes a snapshot of upstream and maintains it for a while. Libreboot is therefore something like a long-term service release. Anecdotally, I also found Libreboot easier to build. There is less configuration involved.
- floatboth 10y agoIt's a distribution of coreboot + GRUB, 100% free of any proprietary blobs. Not really a "fork".