# Minifree ## Identification [[Index - People#Leah Rowe|Leah Rowe]] founded Libreboot, a Coreboot distribution focused on software freedom. Libreboot’s own site dates the project’s founding to December 2013 and describes payloads including GRUB, SeaBIOS, and U-Boot ([Libreboot](https://libreboot.org/)). [[Minifree|Minifree]] sold or modified hardware with free firmware. `osboot` was a separate firmware project associated with the same developer in the noted period. The AR5B95 is a Wi-Fi module associated with Atheros hardware. ## Notebook evidence - [[Scanned_20260730-1719#PDF page 73 — Leah Rowe, Minifree, Libreboot, osboot, and “federation”|PDF page 73: Leah Rowe, Minifree, Libreboot, osboot, and “federation”]] — The technical pursuit becomes explicitly political and organizational. “Federalism” appears to name a model in which independent hardware, firmware, operating systems, archives, and communities cooperate without a single vendor controlling the whole stack. ## Relationships and overlays The source places this note in a shared evidence cluster with [[Index - People#Leah Rowe|Leah Rowe]]. Within the larger collection, this evidence extends [[Vendor-Agnostic Recovery|vendor-agnostic recovery]] and [[Continuity Architecture|continuity architecture]] by showing how software, hardware, identity, and pre-OS control depend on recoverable interfaces. ## Evidentiary status and open leads Distinguish the technical project histories of Libreboot and osboot from personal or community disputes. Preserve releases and documentation, not social-media inference. ## Source - [[Scanned_20260730-1719|Scanned_20260730-1719]]