npub1uzst...gkxp 1 year ago

I'm happy to announce the *Libreboot 3050 Micro*: https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-3050-micro/ This is a Dell OptiPlex 3050 Micro with Libreboot pre-installed, replacing Dell's proprietary UEFI firmware. Your choice of Debian Linux, other distro or BSD. Libreboot offers greater security and faster boot speeds than Dell's firmware. This is a 7th gen mainboard; it replaces the larger Libreboot 9020SFF. I'm Libreboot's founder / lead dev. Sales fund Libreboot. Libreboot T480 also launched:

Minifree Ltd – Libreboot T480 with 4-core i5-8250u, Intel UHD 630 graphics, 32GB/64GB DDR4 RAM, Intel AX210 WiFi, 1TB/2TB NVMe SSD and Debian Linux

npub1uzst...gkxp 1 year ago

I'm happy to announce the *Libreboot T480*:

Minifree Ltd – Libreboot T480 with 4-core i5-8250u, Intel UHD 630 graphics, 32GB/64GB DDR4 RAM, Intel AX210 WiFi, 1TB/2TB NVMe SSD and Debian Linux

ThinkPad T480 *with Libreboot pre-installed*, to replace proprietary BIOS/UEFI firmware. Your choice of Debian Linux, other distro or BSD. Libreboot offers greater security and faster boot speeds than Lenovo firmware. T480 is 8th gen (Kabylake Refresh), replacing Libreboot T440p, which was 4th gen (Haswell). I'm Libreboot's founder / lead dev. Sales fund Libreboot. LIbreboot 3050 Micro also launched: https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-3050-micro/

npub1uzst...gkxp 1 year ago

btw today is libreboot day. first release ever was on 12 december 2013 today is 12 december 2024. therefore, today is libreboot's 11th birthday!

Libreboot – Free and Open Source BIOS/UEFI boot firmware

it's the free/opensource bios replacement that i maintain, based on coreboot.

npub1uzst...gkxp 1 year ago

*Libreboot T480 and Libreboot 3050 coming soon* on

Minifree Ltd – Libreboot T480 with 4-core i5-8250u, Intel UHD 630 graphics, 32GB/64GB DDR4 RAM, Intel AX210 WiFi, 1TB/2TB NVMe SSD and Debian Linux

- they are the ThinkPad T480 and Dell OptiPlex 3050 Micro, with Libreboot pre-installed. I've now discontinued *every* computer product currently sold on minifree.org: * Libreboot T440p/X230/W541 (T480 to replace them) * Libreboot 9020SFF (3050 to replace it) Libreboot is the free/opensource BIOS replacement I maintain:

Libreboot – Free and Open Source BIOS/UEFI boot firmware

Working on current orders first; new products to launch within a few days.

npub1uzst...gkxp 1 year ago

Arch Linux on a Librebooted Dell Latitude E6230 -- installed using the recently added U-Boot payload. U-Boot provides a 64-bit UEFI environment on x86 in Libreboot. All of the photos below are of UEFI booting, in Libreboot! U-Boot on x86 is still quite imperfect on real hardware, but can work well. A lot more testing needed; the way I do it is I load U-Boot from flash, via SeaBIOS ESC menu. Simon Glass has been helping me. This will be available on most machines in the next Libreboot release.

npub1uzst...gkxp 1 year ago

Reminder: Libreboot machines heavily discounted:

Minifree Ltd – Libreboot T480 with 4-core i5-8250u, Intel UHD 630 graphics, 32GB/64GB DDR4 RAM, Intel AX210 WiFi, 1TB/2TB NVMe SSD and Debian Linux

I'm Libreboot's founder and lead developer. Sales fund Libreboot. Libreboot (preinstalled) is free/opensource firmware replacing proprietary BIOS/UEFI. New stable Libreboot release coming soon, by November 15th. Your choice of Debian Linux, other distro or BSD. Libreboot 9020 price further reduced; was £218, then 138, now 118. I'll discontinue the 9020 next week and will launch new, better products. All 9020's must go!

npub1uzst...gkxp 1 year ago

New release of Libreboot, soon.

npub1uzst...gkxp 1 year ago

Reminder: all Libreboot machines are currently on a heavy discount, on Minifree:

Minifree Ltd – Libreboot T480 with 4-core i5-8250u, Intel UHD 630 graphics, 32GB/64GB DDR4 RAM, Intel AX210 WiFi, 1TB/2TB NVMe SSD and Debian Linux

I'm the founder and lead developer of the Libreboot project. Sales fund Libreboot. Libreboot (preinstalled) is free/opensource firmware replacing proprietary BIOS/UEFI on supported hardware. I did a release recently, namely Libreboot 20241008. Your choice of Debian Linux, other distro or a BSD. I'm raising money for some planned work in November, hence price cut going for increased sales.

npub1uzst...gkxp 1 year ago

I'm doing a clearance sale of the Libreboot 9020. *Heavy* price reduction:

Minifree Ltd – Libreboot T480 with 4-core i5-8250u, Intel UHD 630 graphics, 32GB/64GB DDR4 RAM, Intel AX210 WiFi, 1TB/2TB NVMe SSD and Debian Linux

I'll have two new products in November, but I still have a lot of 9020 in the lab. *All 9020's must go!* The base 16GB RAM and 240GB SSD Libreboot 9020 setup with i5 is £138, plus shipping/VAT. It's quite a nice Haswell (Intel 4th gen) machine with free initialisation including raminit. Libreboot preinstalled, replacing proprietary BIOS/UEFI. Your choice of Linux/BSD setup (Debian by default).

npub1uzst...gkxp 1 year ago

Was chatting with one of my buddies on jitsi meet. he showed me this:

MPC One

MPC One delivers the standalone MIDI sequencing power of the flagship MPC X in a smaller footprint for any music production studio.

Music sampler thingy. I was super bored so I went to their downloads section:

MPC Software & Firmware Downloads | Akai Pro

AKAI Professional entered the electronic music industry in 1984 with one purpose - to give artists the tools they need to express and explore new m...

I started gutting it; the Windows updater app contains lzma archive inside. Inside *that*, from a specific offset, another lzma archive. extracted it and it was a ext2 file system image. Mounted it It's Linux. with glibc and busybox. No source code or written offer of source. GPL violation anyone?