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Notable custom-firmware projects for wireless routers. Many of these will run on various brands such as Linksys, Asus, Netgear, etc. OpenWrt – Customizable FOSS firmware written from scratch; features a combined SquashFS/JFFS2 file system and the package manager opkg [1] with over 3000 available packages (Linux/GPL); now merged with LEDE.
KVH Co., Ltd., previously known as KVH Telecom, was founded by Fidelity Investments in 1999 as an Asia-Pacific IT/communications service provider. Through its facility-based optical fiber networks, data centers, and cloud services platform, KVH is an information delivery platform providing integrated IT and communication solutions to enterprise businesses.
Firmware hacks usually take advantage of the firmware update facility on many devices to install or run themselves. Some, however, must resort to exploits to run, because the manufacturer has attempted to lock the hardware to stop it from running unlicensed code. Most firmware hacks are free software.
It marked the 27 th consecutive year that a KVH TracVision system has been honored in the marine satellite TV category. “We are gratified by the decision of the NMEA members to bestow this honor upon the TracVision UHD7,” remarked Jim George, KVH’s vice president of global leisure sales.
Open-source firmware is firmware that is published under an open-source license. It can be contrasted with proprietary firmware , which is published under a proprietary license or EULA . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
fwupd is an open-source daemon for managing the installation of firmware updates on Linux-based systems, developed by GNOME maintainer Richard Hughes. [1] It is designed primarily for servicing the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware on supported devices via EFI System Resource Table (ESRT) and UEFI Capsule, which is supported in Linux kernel 4.2 and later.
Open Firmware is a standard defining the interfaces of a computer firmware system, formerly endorsed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). It originated at Sun Microsystems where it was known as OpenBoot , and has been used by multiple vendors including Sun , Apple , [ 1 ] IBM and ARM .
Open Firmware was an early attempt to make an open specification for boot firmware. It was initially endorsed by IEEE in its IEEE 1275-1994 standard but was withdrawn in 2005. [ 70 ] [ 71 ] Later examples include the OpenBIOS , coreboot and libreboot projects.