| Project
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Freedom
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Usage
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Can be loaded by
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Can load
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| Barebox
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?
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- Bootloader for some comuters.
- Complete BIOS replacement for some other computers.
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- Hardware
- nonfree first stage bootloaders
- QEMU
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- GNU Linux operating system
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| Coreboot
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The nonfree software present in its source code seem now gone. But it reuses external nonfree software to support many computers. In some case it doesn't do much anymore and the nonfree software does almost all the work.
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- Partial BIOS replacement: initialize the hardware only, doesn't load an operating system.
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- Linux kernel + initrd
- GRUB
- SeaBIOS
- Tianocore
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| GNU GRUB
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Fully free (GNU Project)
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- Complete BIOS replacement for Some Lemote computer.
- Bootloader for all other cases.
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- BIOS (SeaBIOS, nonfree BIOS, etc)
- Coreboot
- Hardware in the case of some Lemote computers.
- QEMU
- UEFI (Tianocore, nonfree UEFI, etc)
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- GNU Linux operating system with grub.cfg
- Ipxe
- Memtest86+
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| SeaBIOS
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Probably fully free. Shipped as-is by FSDG distributions.
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- Implements the BIOS interface.
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- Coreboot
- QEMU
- UEFI (Tianocore, nonfree UEFI, etc).
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| U-Boot
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Contains nonfree software
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- Bootloader for some comuters.
- Complete BIOS replacement for some other computers.
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- BIOS (SeaBIOS, nonfree BIOS, etc)
- Hardware
- nonfree first stage bootloaders
- QEMU
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- GNU Linux operating system with syslinux.cfg
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