
Coreboot, FOSS firmware, Pop_OS!, and System76 w/ Jeremy Soller
About this episode
Have you been thinking about switching to Linux for your daily driver, or wondering what Coreboot or open-source firmware are? This episode, we're sitting down with Jeremy Soller to chat about System76, the company that makes my laptop (among others) and are behind Pop_OS!, a user-friendly Linux distribution.
More about Jeremy Soller:
- Jeremy Soller's guest profile -- https://www.optoutpod.com/guests/jeremy-soller/
More about System76:
- Website -- https://system76.com/
- About System76 -- https://system76.com/about
- Pop_OS! -- https://pop.system76.com/
- Pop_OS! chat -- https://chat.pop-os.org
- System76 open firmware -- https://github.com/system76/firmware-open
- The System76 Lemur Pro, my laptop -- https://system76.com/laptops/lemur
More about Coreboot:
- Docs -- https://doc.coreboot.org/
Jeremy Soller's recommended tools to Opt Out:
- Tor browser, and easy to use anonymous web browser -- https://www.torproject.org/
- Bitcoin
- Firefox, a FOSS and privacy-preserving browser -- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/
- My recommended Firefox hardening guide -- https://chrisx.xyz/blog/yet-another-firefox-hardening-guide/
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