Over 9 Years LVFS Has Served Over 110 Million Firmware Files To Linux Systems

This week marks nine years since the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) was started by Richard Hughes of Red Hat to ease the firmware updating/distribution process with the open-source Fwupd firmware updating utility.

In marking the 9th birthday of LVFS, Richard Hughes shared a brief retrospective and the latest stats on LVFS/Fwupd firmware updating. Over the past nine years LVFS has brought aboard 140+ vendors, shipped around 110 million firmware files, and supported around 85 firmware updating protocols and supporting around 1,600 different devices. LVFS/Fwupd continue to support a wide variety of devices from web cameras and SSDs and mice all the way up to system firmware.

Hughes' commentary for the 9th birthday of the Linux Vendor Firmware Service can be found on Mastodon.social. The list of vendors supporting LVFS and other information can be found on Fwupd.org.