Download libreboot

Torrent (magnet) links to releases, and links to third-party HTTP mirrors. Use this page to download libreboot. These are stable releases; for development (unstable) releases, refer back to the home page.

This page isn't actually ready yet. For now, the official download page is at ../docs/release.html. On the next release of libreboot after r20150208, release archives will no longer be hosted on the libreboot.org HTTP server. Old releases will be deleted and moved to bittorrent. New releases will also be hosted on bittorrent.

Why bittorrent? As we all know, bittorrent is inherently more efficient than a HTTP server for large files, due to its peer-to-peer distributed nature. Libreboot releases are actually much more efficient now, where ROM images for each machine are separated into their own tar archives. The old 'binary' archive is now named 'utils'. Documentation is also deleted from 'utils' and 'src' and now available in a separate archive. All of this means that the user has a much more streamlined way of getting libreboot releases, with less data to download. Bittorrent will improve this even further, giving users faster download speeds.

Bittorrent is also redundant. The libreboot project will not actually host its own tracker at all, but it will instead use many public trackers and publish the magnet links. The website is also hosted in git, which means that everything is easier to mirror. If libreboot.org is down, you'll still be able to download libreboot so long as you have those magnet links.

Information about these releases can be found under docs/release.html in the libreboot_docs archive or in the git git repository. See ../docs/release.html.

It has been suggested to setup RSS feeds for this, so that people can automatically download and seed new releases. TODO: look into this.

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