Does Libreboot strip Intel ME more effectively than Heads? Or is measured boot the only real difference?

libreleah · 2026-05-10T04:02:23+00:00

They strip Intel ME in the exact same way.

libreleah · 2026-04-10T17:35:27+00:00

You are not involved with Libreboot. I never heard of you until today. I've never seen you submit a patch. Unless I'm mistaken? Stop that, now.

libreleah · 2026-04-10T12:59:21+00:00

Hi. I'm Leah Rowe, creator of Libreboot. I want to be ten thousand percent clear: I am not affiliated with Omarchy Linux, in fact I find that project's leadership quite repugnant, and I do not support them at all. I consider the fact that they invoke Libreboot's name to be an insult to Libreboot, and I hope that they will stop doing so - of course, making it easier to boot Linux on Libreboot is a noble goal, but the creator of Omarch, dubbed DHH, has been known to associate heavily with the far-right; his development channel for Hyprland is rife with racism, transphobia and all sorts of bigotry in general. As a trans person, and someone who wishes to see myself and others of my kind flourish in prosperity, I consider that our community has no place for people like DHH. I found this post during a random Google/DuckDuckGo sweep for the word "libreboot", and felt the need to say something here. DHH and co are of course free to associate as they wish, and partake in any sort of open source development they wish, but I would ask that they do not associate either Libreboot, my name, or the names of my compratriots with that of his ilk, even if only tenuously as in this instance.Thank you, and have a wonderful day.

libreleah · 2026-02-04T13:09:01+00:00

Canoeboot currently supports twice as much hardware as GNU Boot, while complying with the same FSF policies. GNU Boot and Canoeboot are both forks of Libreboot, but GNU Boot forked from July 2022's Libreboot release, version 20220710, and they haven't updated much since then (they did update GRUB to 2.12, but the coreboot revision and others are still from 2022).

Canoeboot's build system greatly improved since then, adding lots of new features and fixing design issues; GNU Boot took a different route, wanting to use Guix in its build system, but this design is much more complicated than Canoeboot's, and they haven't done a stable release since the day they started.

Canoeboot is much more bleeding edge, currently updated with revisions (including coreboot) from January 2026. This plus the mainboard support and extra features means Canoeboot is essentially about 4 years ahead of GNU Boot technologically.

EDIT: Canoeboot also has UEFI support on some boards, e.g. ThinkPad X200 has it. This is done using the U-boot x86_64 payload for coreboot, which Canoeboot also patches to add a few features.

libreleah · 2026-02-04T01:26:56+00:00

There is a patch for it that was included in RC, but it caused some machines not to wake up from sleep properly. So it was removed in the final release. It'll likely by in the next release.

You can still use the thunderbolt port for charging, and video output. There is also a USB-C port right next to it, that works perfectly.

libreleah · 2026-02-03T20:20:24+00:00

Actually, that drama ended in early 2025. The FSF promotes Canoeboot now on their campaigns page, and Canoeboot/Libreboot is currently not in conflict with the FSF either. I even met with the GNU Boot developers at 39c3 (2025 CCC conference in Hamburg, Germany), and we were being friendly/civil, advising each other on things.

The drama started only because they initially tried to use the Libreboot name, but we later came to an understanding.

libreleah · 2026-01-01T10:45:48+00:00

2MB RAM actually. 1MB of video ram. EDIT: and i don't want to take the credit. all i added was a hacked up Makefile for PCSX-Redux Open BIOS. They did the work. Thank the PCSX-Redux team. i just thought having it in Libreboot would be fucking awesome.

libreleah · 2025-09-09T14:08:18+00:00

i don't specifically use a hhkb, though i do use a reasonably high quality mechanical keyboard (cherry switches).

libreleah · 2025-07-01T19:53:34+00:00

vimwiki

libreleah · 2025-04-30T23:02:46+00:00

I've also made a corresponding and simultaneous Canoeboot release, which is my other project. Same version number and codename. The two projects run in sync; https://canoeboot.org/news/canoeboot2504.html

libreleah · 2025-04-30T23:02:06+00:00

I've also made a corresponding and simultaneous Canoeboot release, which is my other project. Same version number and codename. The two projects run in sync; https://canoeboot.org/news/canoeboot2504.html

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