Whenever I see news about libreboot the first thing that happens in my brain is that I somehow associate it with a library that handles rebooting. Takes a few seconds every time to, well, reboot my thoughts.

Any release of Libreboot is a good release! Mind you any free/libre software is good software. ;)

While I am still a tiny little bit on edge about the changes to the project in terms of use of binary blobs - it is better to be going this path than to merely be theoretically free.

The old Core 2 Duo Thinkpad laptops are a dwindling supply. That said I still love mine dearly and it is my daily runner. I purchase a T400 from Leah about 5 years ago and it is still going strong!

What's the difference between libreboot versus coreboot?

It seems there are still only very few desktop and laptop motherboards which are supported. Which may not be the project developers' fault, but it can still only be used by rather few people. :-(

So how does this differ from making your own unified kernel image, ie a self-contained EFI boot file made from dracut or other? And does it work better with Secure Boot?

I am very much happy to see that this project is alive again and regularly releasing updates. Amazing job Leah Rowe :)

Nice usage of calver :)

The question is, why should I bother, as a regular user? What will libreboot improve on my x86_64 PC if all I need is the ability to boot into my preferred operating system and I don’t care about “freedom”, considering the machine already contains stuff like Intel ME that libreboot can’t disable?