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# Distributions
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coreboot doesn't provide binaries but provides a toolbox that others can use
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to build boot firmware for all kinds of purposes. These third-parties can be
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broadly separated in two groups: Those shipping coreboot on their hardware,
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and those providing after-market firmware to extend the usefulness of devices.
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## Shipping coreboot on hardware
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### Purism
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[Purism](https://www.puri.sm) sells laptops with a focus on privacy and
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part of that is their push to remove as much unaccounted code (that is,
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binary only) from their devices as possible.
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### Chromebooks
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All Chromebooks (and related devices) that hit the market after 2013 are
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using coreboot as their main firmware. And even the Embedded Controller,
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a small microcontroller to support various peripherals (like battery
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management or the keyboard) is running open source firmware.
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## After-market firmware
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### Libreboot
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[Libreboot](https://libreboot.org) is a project that provides ready-made
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binaries for platforms where those can be built entirely from source
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code. Their copy of the coreboot repository is therefore stripped of
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all devices that require binary components to boot.
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### Mr. Chromebox
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[Matt Devo](https://mrchromebox.tech/) provides replacement firmware for
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various Chromebooks. Why replace coreboot with coreboot? You might want
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to do different things than what the Google engineers prepared for the
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mass market, that's why. This firmware is "with training wheels off".
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### John Lewis
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[John Lewis](https://johnlewis.ie/custom-chromebook-firmware) also
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provides replacements for Chromebook firmware, for the same reasons
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as Mr. Chromebox. It's a somewhat different set of devices, and with
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different configurations, so check out both if Chromebooks are what
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you're dealing with.
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