Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

SoylentNews is powered by your submissions, so send in your scoop. Only 17 submissions in the queue.

Libreboot Sees First New Release In Nearly 5 Years, Supports More Old Motherboards

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday May 25 2021, @09:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the open-source++ dept.

takyon writes:

Libreboot Sees First New Release In Nearly 5 Years, Supports More Old Motherboards

Libreboot as the Coreboot downstream focused on providing a fully open-source BIOS/firmware replacement without any black boxes / binary blobs is out with a new release. The prior tagged release of Libreboot was all the way back in 2016 while has now been succeeded by a new release albeit in testing form.

Libreboot 20210522 allows more Intel GM45 / X3X era hardware to work with this fully open-source alternative to proprietary BIOS/UEFI firmware. New boards supported by this Libreboot release include the Acer G43T-AM3, Lenovo ThinkPad R500, Lenovo ThinkPad X301, and Intel G43T-AM3. Yeah, it's quite hard in 2021 to get excited about Socket 775 motherboards or 45nm Penryn laptops. Libreboot is largely limited to supporting these outdated platforms due to its focus on being fully open-source and not using any Intel FSP binaries, etc.

Previously: Replace your Proprietary BIOS with Libreboot
AMD to Consider Coreboot/Libreboot Support
Libreboot Applies to Rejoin GNU

Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Libreboot Sees First New Release In Nearly 5 Years, Supports More Old Motherboards | Log In/Create an Account | Top | 33 comments | Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 25 2021, @07:16PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 25 2021, @07:16PM (#1138676)

    TBH, all this inversion of the r and the e in these names seems pretty dumb to me. If they just made it liber as god intended, it wouldn't be so hard to read. liberoffice, liberboot. You're not anywhere near as likely to missegment words when you don't insist on putting the e and r out of order. It's really one of the dumber bits about British English that they could never figure out how to fix the spellings.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 25 2021, @11:24PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 25 2021, @11:24PM (#1138749)

    Reminds me of that Office episode where Dunder-Mifflin was bought out by Sabre printers. Andy, who graduated "near the top of my class" from Cornell, writes a song to greet the new CEO. The problem is that he wrote it to rhyme, thought it was pronounced "SAB-RAY" and they practiced it like that, so they awkwardly slow down and correct the pronunciation to "SA-BER." So you have lines misrhyme like "You can get paper in white or Gray, when you buy from... SAY.. BER."

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 26 2021, @12:44AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 26 2021, @12:44AM (#1138771)

    It's a fucking French word, knobend.