Libreboot, Canoeboot, or GNU Boot?
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Which one do you use, and why? What's the difference between Canoeboot and GNU Boot except that GNU Boot is made by the FSF and Canoeboot is mostly made by Leah Rowe?
Also, that whole FSF drama is over now right?
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GNU Boot is not made by the FSF, it is made by two people who happen to support the FSF.
I use GNU Boot on an X200 and a T400, and Canoeboot on a Dell E6400. Leah probably spends more time on the project from which Canoeboot is derived than the GNU Boot maintainers spend on GNU Boot, but Leah seems not to care about entirely free distro like Trisquel, so I have better confidence that GNU Boot will make the effort to fix issues that would affect Trisquel but not Debian. This is my motivation for preferring GNU Boot when it is supported on the machine I am using.
Still, it is way behind Canoeboot.
Canoeboot supports the devices libreboot used to up to 2 Haswell ones that were misconfigured by lenovo's error.
You have a better shot of getting things right with Canoeboot honestly.
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Still, it is way behind Canoeboot.
I want my computers to boot no matter what, so I don't want to flash updates to the BIOS, but canoeboot has regularly new bugs and there is little information on how tested each version was on a particular machine. So you may have to reflash it, and you'd rather have the option of external flashing, which I don't have.
On the computer on which I have Canoeboot, I don't plan to reflash a more recent version ever, because I don't want any risk of breaking.