fwupd
A system daemon to allow session software to update firmware (by fwupd)
firmware-manager
Generic framework and GTK UI for firmware updates from system76-firmware and fwupd, written in Rust. (by pop-os)
| fwupd | firmware-manager | |
|---|---|---|
| 51 | 6 | |
| 2,596 | 159 | |
| 2.0% | 0.0% | |
| 9.9 | 6.1 | |
| 3 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
| C | Rust | |
| GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
fwupd
Posts with mentions or reviews of fwupd.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-05.
-
Anyone done the recent Samsung SSD firmware update?
UEFI firmware can not be updated in legacy BIOS modeSee https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/wiki/PluginFlag:legacy-bios for more information.Use fwupdmgr --help for help
-
experiencing some checksum error when updating my system (Kubuntu 22.04 LTS)
A similar bug, but featuring a different file and checksum, from today.
-
What are Linux developers going to be doing to address the new code being slow tracked which addresses BlackLotus attacks which eventually will be disabling current boot loaders with the vulnerability?
The more user-friendly distros have support for updating the UEFI secure boot dbx (forbidden binaries) database via fwupd, but due to the circumstances around this update, they currently don't/don't do it correctly. MS isn't doing it automatically themselves yet either so we're not any worse off. There's an open issue around handling this. I suspect it'll take a couple of months before this to-be-written support finds its way into distros. It's complex, annoying and the result of it going wrong is a system that can't boot Windows and can't boot from preexisting Windows recovery media. Distros will want to be very careful with it. I suspect they'll roll it out in stages with single-boot systems getting patched first and possibly interactive user confirmation.
-
Got this baby (T480) with my own money for $180
Use fwupd
-
I just installed Pop OS on my Lenovo Thinkpad T480, i see a bunch of firmware updates... any watch out here as someone completely new to linux? safe to update them all? Thanks!
These updates are coming from fwupd and LVFS. The frontend is Gnome Software. Lenovo is pushing their firmware updates to LVFS, so you're updating with vendor code. Its a lot like getting device drivers and what-not through Windows Update.
- ubuntu 22.04 security question
- Bios update on linux
-
Weekly BIOS Update Post - Week 09. 2023
More here u/CornFlakes1991 please report the issue
-
2 Identical nodes, 1 stable and 1 kernel panics every day.
-> # fwupdmgr update WARNING: UEFI ESP partition not detected or configured See https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/wiki/PluginFlag:esp-not-found for more information. Devices with no available firmware updates: • USB3.0 Hub • Samsung SSD 860 EVO 250GB • USB2.0 Hub • Unifying Receiver Devices with the latest available firmware version: • SKHynix • UEFI dbx
-
Update on Samsung SSD Reliability
Related issue: https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/issues/5477
Would be good to put some pressure on them to use this.
firmware-manager
Posts with mentions or reviews of firmware-manager.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-05.
-
I just installed Pop OS on my Lenovo Thinkpad T480, i see a bunch of firmware updates... any watch out here as someone completely new to linux? safe to update them all? Thanks!
The frontend is the system76 firmware manager, actually.
-
Will System76 ever release drivers for other distros?
With Firmware Manager.
- Does anyone know where I can be notified when there's a new firmware update? I am using Fedora and I want to know when I should boot into Pop!_OS to update.
-
Oryx pro fan amazing after firmware update.
on what distro are you on? I am not sure how it works on popOS because i'm on arch, but there is a gui program called firmware-manager. take a look: https://blog.system76.com/post/187072707563/one-of-the-remaining-issues-with-firmware https://github.com/pop-os/firmware-manager
-
Where does gnome control center firmware find latest firmware?
This is getting downvoted despite being the correct answer https://github.com/pop-os/firmware-manager/issues/76
-
Debian
GTK app repo: https://github.com/pop-os/firmware-manager
What are some alternatives?
When comparing fwupd and firmware-manager you can also consider the following projects:
LSUClient - Orchestrate driver, BIOS/UEFI and firmware updates for Lenovo computers 👨💻
firmware-open - System76 Open Firmware
pop - A project for managing all Pop!_OS sources
apt - Fork of https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt
HDiffPatch - a C\C++ library and command-line tools for Diff & Patch between binary files or directories(folder); cross-platform; runs fast; create small delta/differential; support large files and limit memory requires when diff & patch.
firmware-lenovo - Missing firmware for Lenovo Thinkpad hardware
protoncrkbd - Proton-C compatible crkbd PCB
silverblue-akmods-keys - Fedora Silverblue with SecureBoot enabled and working akmods such as akmod-nvidia or akmod-VirtualBox.
ipfs - Peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol
infineon-firmware-updater - Infineon TPM firmware updater for Linux with Google patches
gnome-shell-extension-appindicator - Adds KStatusNotifierItem support to the Shell
configs-scripts - My configs and scripts. Public domain, do whatever.