Group: Hardware/Software/Boot software
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+ | ! Barebox | ||
+ | | ? | ||
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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 | ! Coreboot |
Revision as of 16:35, 17 May 2024
Boot software
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Barebox | ? |
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Coreboot | 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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GNU GRUB | Fully free (GNU Project) |
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SeaBIOS | Probably fully free. Shipped as-is by FSDG distributions. |
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U-Boot | Contains nonfree software |
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