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		<p>
			<a href="logo/"><img src="logo/logo.svg" alt="Libreboot logo" title="Canteloupe, the libreboot mascot" style="width:25%;float:right" /></a>
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		<h1><?php echo gettext("Libreboot project"); ?></h1>
            <ul>
               <li><a href="download/">Downloads</a></li>
               <li><a href="docs/">Documentation</a></li>
               <li><strong><a href="suppliers/">Buy libreboot laptops</a></strong></li>
               <li><strong><a href="donate/">Donate to libreboot</a></strong></li>
               
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            <ul>
                <li><strong><a href="tasks/">TODO</a></strong></li>
			    <li><strong><a href="git/"><?php echo gettext("Git repositories"); ?></a></strong></li>
				<li><a href="gpg/"><?php echo gettext("GPG keys"); ?></a></li>
				<li><a href="rsync/"><?php echo gettext("Mirroring libreboot"); ?> (rsync)</a></li>
                
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            <p>
				Libreboot is a free BIOS or UEFI replacement (<a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">free as in freedom</a>);
				libre <em>boot firmware</em> that initializes the hardware and starts a bootloader for your operating
				system.
				It's also an open source BIOS, but open source <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html">fails</a> to
				promote freedom; <em>please call libreboot <strong><a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">free software</a></strong></em>.
			</p>
             <p>
                Libreboot is a long-time member of the <a href="https://peers.community/">Peers Community</a> project, an organisation that
                supports Free Software and provides infrastructure (e.g. <a href="https://notabug.org/">Git hosting</a>).
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            <p>
                Questions? <a href="faq/">Read the FAQ</a> or <a href="<?php echo $ircChannelAddress; ?>">join <?php echo $ircChannelName; ?></a> (your nick needs to be authed)
                <br/>You can also <a href="contrib/">contact the developers</a>
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           <p>
                <strong><em><a href="gnu/">Libreboot quit the GNU project on 15 September 2016, in protest of discrimination against
                a transgender person at the Free Software Foundation.</a> -- UPDATE: <a href="gnu-insult/">GNU refuses to let libreboot go, despite everything, in a further unjust act</a></em></strong>
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            <p class="notice">
                <strong>
                    <a href="https://www.crowdsupply.com/raptorcs/talos">Please back the TALOS workstation crowdfunding campaign.</a>
                    This is a fast, modern workstation (equivalent performance-wise to Intel hardware)
                    using the recently freed IBM POWER8 architecture, more generally known
                    as <em>OpenPOWER</em>,
                    and the company manufacturing it is going to preinstall libreboot.

                </strong>
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			<h2>Why use libreboot?</h2>
				<p>
					Many people use <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/proprietary/">non-free</a> boot firmware, even if they
					use <a href="https://www.gnu.org/distros/">GNU/Linux</a>. Non-free BIOS/UEFI firmware often <a href="faq/#intel">contains</a> <a href="faq/#amd">backdoors</a>, can be slow and have severe bugs, where you are left
					helpless at the mercy of the developers; <em>you have no freedom over your computing</em>. By contrast, libreboot is building
					a world where everyone can use, study, adapt and share software, with true control and ownership over their
					technology. <strong>In other words, you should use Libreboot for your freedom's sake!</strong>
				</p>
				<p>
					Libreboot is faster, more secure and more reliable than most non-free firmware, and can provide many advanced features
					(such as encrypted /boot/, GPG signature checking before booting your kernel, ability to load an OS <em>from the flash chip</em>, and
					more).
				</p>
				<p>
					Libreboot's main upstream providers are <a href="https://www.coreboot.org/">coreboot</a> (which we deblob, for hardware initialization), <a href="docs/depthcharge/index.html">depthcharge</a> (bootloader, and default libreboot payload on ARM),
					and <a href="https://gnu.org/software/grub/">GNU GRUB</a> (bootloader, and default libreboot payload on x86). We also
					integrate <a href="https://www.flashrom.org/Flashrom">flashrom</a> (for installing libreboot), and several of our own utilities, scripts
					and configuration files. All of this is integrated into a single, coherent package that is easy to use. We add our own patches to the various
					upstreams used, and where feasible try to merge upstream as much as possible.
				</p>
				<p>
					Libreboot provides a fully automated build system and installation process, with documentation written for non-technical users,
					in an attempt to make the software as easy to use as possible. ROM images are provided, along with utilities, all built from the
					publicly distributed source code.
				</p>
				<p>
					<strong><a href="docs/index.html#why">Learn more about libreboot</a></strong>
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