So Sup Forums why haven't you installed the only BIOS that actually respects your freedom, privacy, and human rights by using no proprietary firmware and disables the Intel (NSA backdoor) ME?
>inb4 the dev is a tranny and drama queen That's a red herring and has no bearing on the project The dispute with GNU was resolved several months ago youtube.com/watch?v=FQCwYAhZnQg
>inb4 no compatible system You can literally get a ThinkPad X200 for $50 on ebay
>inb4 no beaglebone/pi for external flashing You can get an X60 for internal flashing or use a Libreboot flashing service (about $50) on ebay for X200/T400
>inb4 that hardware is ancient An X200 will pretty much do anything besides "muh gaymin" plus there are some descent mobo's that support Libreboot for an Intel or AMD desktop system (see below)
Compatible Laptops/Boards: Server boards: Asus KFSN4-DRE and Asus KGPE-D16 Desktop boards: Asus KCMA-D8, Intel D510MO, Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2L, and Apple iMac 5,2 Laptops: Asus Chromebook C201, Lenovo ThinkPad X60/X60s, Lenovo ThinkPad X60 Tablet, Lenovo ThinkPad T60 (some exceptions), Lenovo ThinkPad X200, Lenovo ThinkPad R400, Lenovo ThinkPad T400, Lenovo ThinkPad T500, Apple MacBook 1.1, and Apple MacBook 2.1
That pic's been bothering me for a while, so I fixed it.
Austin Young
Did I just see more hardware supported?
Nathan Evans
isn't MacOS less proprietary than Windows?
Xavier Wilson
The stolen BSD parts yes, but that was always open. The GUI on the other hand, even Windows APIs are more open.
Carson Gray
How was it stolen?
Zachary Russell
I know what you mean but I trust less in Microsoft
Justin Parker
How do we know libreboot doesn't have a backdoor? or a vulnerability that might as well be one?
Ayden Young
>lgbt
Charles Foster
cause it's open source dum dum
Thomas Wilson
Yes, this is the Libreboot is the Greatest BIOS Thread. What's so funny about that user?
Cameron Martinez
Doesn't mean anything. There was an 8 year old kernel bug that went unnoticed.
Kevin Wilson
>dat Libreboot videos Based Luke Smith.
Joshua Lee
>hurr, le sjw boogieman XD Fuck off you 65% white Nazi larper, Leah Rowe did nothing wrong.
Tyler Allen
it's committed to regularly and openly. Loads better than not even knowing that much. Any other issues would crop up in any similar proprietary project.
Jace Russell
Luke didn't hate on her at all, he just gave an unbiased look at what happened over the controversy with GNU.
This.
You're right user, better use the proprietary BIOS and Intel ME that you can't audit and has known security holes at this very moment.
Brandon Martin
Very excited about Talos II
NSA shills will be on suicide watch when that starts shipping out.
Xavier Nguyen
Friendly GNU+Bump
Brandon Wilson
X220 support, real or fake?
Anthony White
In the works.
Henry Long
To all the 126 customers. NASA/FBI will probably be pretty satisfied. The list of people having ordered will probably have pretty good yield of criminals/suspects once they go through it.
Lots of "just autists" cases too, of course, but still.
Andrew Johnson
Will we get a confirmation so i can buy an X220 now and librebot at the end of the year?
Ryder Parker
I'm wondering if there has been any pentesting on coreboot or libreboot. Or is just hacked together open sores code that is probably quicker to break than proprietary.
Jaxon Bell
this meme is backwards, faggot. You're supposed to put the assumed worst choice as the biggest brain. Also FOSS compliant drivers are objectively worse than the proprietary drivers, the only reason to use FOSS shit is because you think you're on some moral high ground. If you're actually doing work FOSS is a complete waste of time and resources.
Here's a video of someone who actually contributes to LINUX shitting on FOSS: youtu.be/bw58LZTuZjA
Thomas Howard
the whole point of the fucking meme is the ironic last panel
add on more ascended panel at the end, and label it "Windows ME", then it's funny
Carter King
knowyourmeme says it can go either way
I'm calling BULLSHIT on that chart. I know for a fact that you can get 85% of the performance using nouveau compared to the proprietary nvidia garbage drivers.
patience is a virtue, it's coming
It's vastly more secure because all of the code has been audited. Plus the ROM's are more secure because they only do the essential tasks to start the system, nothing more. Unlike the NSA backdoor Intel ME that has more holes in it than swiss cheese.
Go fuck yourself you fucking boot licking shill.
Xavier Price
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Angel Young
Question: Let's say I bought a Librebooted Thinkpad from Ebay and I wanted to upgrade the processor. Will Libreboot still work with the new processor that is the same generation and compatible with the motherboard?
Cooper Walker
Yes it will work. Libreboot applies to the motherboard, not the CPU. Just keep in mind that not all Thinkpads can have the CPU upgraded, some are soldered to the mobo.
Jacob Sullivan
Can the X200s be librebooted?
Jordan Lewis
>knowyourmeme more like killyourself
Nathaniel Walker
T400 here. Great laptop. I ended up switching over to Coreboot though, which was easy because Libreboot makes BIOS chip write protection from the OS optional. My main reason for switching is that the included GRUB payload would occasionally throw up an error in which it said that it can't locate a bootable kernel or hard drive or something like that. Well, I'm not about to debug my fucking BIOS. So I flashed Coreboot with SeaBIOS which then boots GRUB 2 off the main disk and it works great. I also didn't flash back any ME firmware or modules after uninstalling Libreboot and it doesn't show up in my PCI devices so I guess that's all good. Boot times are also faster by like 3 seconds but that doesn't really matter.
Hunter Garcia
Thank you very much for the response. I wanted to upgrade the CPU but hesitated in case it might not work.
Dylan Stewart
Yes, it's just a little more challenging due to the location of the chip.
Jose Myers
does any of the thinkpads have pcima? We need external gpus so we can play video games.
Adam Thomas
Yes, most thinkpads have it.
Benjamin Rogers
Ok, so why arnt there guides on using an external gpu with these guys. This is the one thing stopping me from going into full libreboot mode.
That, and there is one proprietary game I have to play.
Eli Collins
I've seen people use external GPU on thinkpads before, but I have no idea if it would work with libreboot. Are video games more important than freedom?
Levi Jenkins
Its a free to play game... And you have the freedom to play as much as you want.
Grayson Young
That is legit. I'd switch to windows if they stopped supporting linux+gnu
