System76 vs. The LVFS Firmware Updating Service

[M@GOid]

Looks like Redhat NIH in full swing. If their solution for everything is not used, must be bad.

[sdack]

Don't do business with RedHat.

[boxie]

+1 for the use of the word defenestrated

Not enough things get thrown out of windows!

[andre30correia]

the question here! how much Dell pay for this guy say that

[numacross]

Is System76's hardware capable of updating using just the UEFI? For example on newer Dells you can update the UEFI with itself by pressing F12, selecting the updater and providing the universal .exe (FreeDOS- and Windows-capable) on a FAT32 partition either on a HDD or USB storage.

Updating the firmware from the OS, especially Linux, is nice to have, but an OS-agnostic way is very useful too.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: System76 vs. The LVFS Firmware Updating Service

This week the latest open-source drama was a differing of opinions between Richard Hughes of Red Hat who maintains Fwupd and LVFS for Linux firmware updating from the desktop and that of Linux PC vendor System76...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=System76-LVFS