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481 Lenovo, Dell, and HP Financially Support Linux Vendor Firmware Service

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 05/24/2026 10:34 EDT

Lenovo, Dell, and HP Financially Support Linux Vendor Firmware Service

The It's FOSS blog has news about the Linux Vendor Firmware Service, which gives hardware vendors a secure portal to upload firmware updates "which can then be downloaded and installed by users through clients such as GNOME Software or fwupdmgr." (Originally developed in 2015 by GNOME maintainer Richard Hughes...)
The issue, however, obviously, had been funding with the largest contributors being the usual suspects, Framework and Open Source Framework Foundation, at $10K a year. Recently, however, Lenovo an

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