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Librecore: Aiming to be a Better Libre Spin of Coreboot

posted by martyb on Tuesday January 24 2017, @06:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the making-a-better-'puter-booter dept.

-- OriginalOwner_ writes:

Michael Larabel reports via Phoronix

Librecore is a new project aiming to be a new Coreboot downstream with a focus remaining on providing fully-free system firmware. Separately, Minifree/Libreboot has been accused (and admitted by Leah Rowe) to not paying a vendor for a completed contract.

Librecore was formed due to "[Libreboot lead developer Leah Rowe] alienating large portions of the community, plus the stagnant and hard to use libreboot firmware and build system." With Librecore, they are aiming to use industry-standard tools and build environments. Another different design decision is pursuing Petitboot as the payload for a more modern and useful interface over GRUB as a payload.

[An] email from [Timothy Pearson of Raptor Engineering, one of the developers involved with the formation of Librecore, says]

We strongly recommend that no person do any business with Minifree or its founder Leah Rowe, as they do not honor their legally binding contracts.

The author notes that Rowe sent him an email that attempts damage control while admitting that she gyped Pearson.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by FatPhil on Wednesday January 25 2017, @09:53AM

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Wednesday January 25 2017, @09:53AM (#458443) Homepage
    She puts announcements on the project webpages using the pronoun "we", but no other contributor has edit access to the webpages, no other contributor to the project has expressed any support of her changes, and the only other contributor who has said anything (Zammit) has come out vociferous against the changes. That, and she's a proven attempted (and succeeded) rewriter of history.

    That makes her toxic, and borderline loon, in my book.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 25 2017, @06:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 25 2017, @06:30PM (#458570)

    Yup. Rejected submission from September:
    Recent Libreboot Headlines Were Due to 1 Person [soylentnews.org]

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday January 27 2017, @10:11AM

      by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Friday January 27 2017, @10:11AM (#459404) Homepage
      The reason that wasn't run was that editors thought that it was better to watch and wait, as it wasn't obvious if it would blow up or blow over, and it wasn't worth reporting on each new change.
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