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  1. GNU Libreboot
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  3. Libreboot documentation is under docs/
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  4. The website is https://libreboot.org/
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  5. License can be found in COPYING and through parts of the source tree.
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  7. Libreboot is a free BIOS or UEFI replacement (free as in freedom); libre boot 
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  8. firmware that initializes the hardware and starts a bootloader for your 
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  9. operating system. It's also an open source BIOS, but open source fails to 
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  10. promote freedom; please call libreboot free software. Since 14 May 2016, 
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  11. Libreboot is part of the GNU project. 
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  13. Why use libreboot?
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  15. Many people use non-free boot firmware, even if they use GNU/Linux. Non-free 
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  16. BIOS/UEFI firmware often contains backdoors, can be slow and have severe bugs, 
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  17. where you are left helpless at the mercy of the developers; you have no freedom 
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  18. over your computing. By contrast, libreboot joins GNU in building a world where 
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  19. everyone can use, study, adapt and share software, with true control and 
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  20. ownership over their technology. In other words, you should use Libreboot for 
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  21. your freedom's sake!
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  23. Libreboot is faster, more secure and more reliable than most non-free firmware, 
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  24. and can provide many advanced features (such as encrypted /boot/, GPG signature 
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  25. checking before booting your kernel, ability to load an OS from the flash chip, 
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  26. and more).
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  28. Libreboot's main upstream providers are coreboot (which we deblob, for hardware 
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  29. initialization), depthcharge (bootloader, and default libreboot payload on ARM), 
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  30. and GNU GRUB (bootloader, and default libreboot payload on x86). We also 
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  31. integrate flashrom (for installing libreboot), and several of our own utilities, 
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  32. scripts and configuration files. All of this is integrated into a single, 
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  33. coherent package that is easy to use. We add our own patches to the various 
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  34. upstreams used, and where feasible try to merge upstream as much as possible.
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  36. Libreboot provides a fully automated build system and installation process, with 
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  37. documentation written for non-technical users, in an attempt to make the 
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  38. software as easy to use as possible. ROM images are provided, along with 
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  39. utilities, all built from the publicly distributed source code. 
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  41. This README is licensed under Creative Commons Zero 1.0:
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  42. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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