Dell & Lenovo Now Sponsoring The Linux Vendor Firmware Service
2026-05-06 23:21 UTC
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@warmaster@lemmy.world 2026-05-07 00:19
Holy moly, $100k a year each. I hope this more than covers LVFS’ costs and give them enough headroom to keep improving it. For these companies it must be pocket change, but that can be a lot of money if the LVFS is efficient enough.
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@SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 2026-05-07 00:49
Lenovo and Dell laptops are the best for Linux for some time already. Thinkpads get the spotlight but the Latitudes are no hassle too.
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@placebo@piefed.zip 2026-05-07 06:26
Can I update bios on my laptop with this? On the website, Lenovo only offers an exe file for Windows - can’t even install it manually in BIOS like I’d normally do on a desktop PC.
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@sakphul@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-05-07 07:24
This is a good very good thing! Let’s hope that Dell & Lenovo will also cover their more Consumer oriented devices (Lenovo Yoga, Lenovo Ideapad or Dell Non-Pro or XPS models) instead of just their Business oriented Models (like Dell Latitudes and Thinkpads/Thinkstation)
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@quick_snail@feddit.nl 2026-05-07 14:56
So why this company and not coreboot? NovaCustom uses Dasharo, developed by 3mdeb. Isn’t that better? github.com/Dasharo/coreboot
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@Amaterasu@lemmy.world 2026-05-07 20:39
Looking for the day that Lenovo will make Thinkbook firmware updates available via fwupd like it does for Thinkpad.