Clarifications on GNU Boot
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To address these concerns, the GNU Project has developed GNU Boot,
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To address these concerns, the GNU Project has developed GNU Boot,
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a fully free distribution of firmware, including \textit{coreboot},
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a fully free distribution of firmware, including \textit{coreboot},
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that aims to be entirely free by avoiding the use of proprietary
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that aims to be entirely free by avoiding the use of proprietary
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binary blobs. GNU Boot is committed to using only free software
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binary blobs. \\
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GNU Boot is only a distribution: it reuses existing software projects
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and is not very different from fully free GNU/Linux distributions like
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Trisquel or Guix as GNU Boot is committed to using only free software
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for all aspects of firmware, making it a preferred choice for users
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for all aspects of firmware, making it a preferred choice for users
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and organizations that prioritize software freedom and transparency
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and organizations that prioritize software freedom and transparency.
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\cite{gnuboot}.
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Its goal include to build the software and assemble it in something
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that can be installed, and also to test it and to provide installation
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and upgrade instructions \cite{gnuboot}.
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\section{Shift in firmware responsibilities}
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\section{Shift in firmware responsibilities}
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