software, proprietary software only available as a binary executable is referred to as a blob or binary blob. The term usually refers to a device driver module...
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Opaque binary blob (OBB) is a term used in network engineering and computer science to refer to a sizeable piece of data, which looks like binary garbage...
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storage, or blob storage, that manages data as "blobs" or "objects" Binary blob, or blob, a non-free object in open source software Blob URI scheme, a...
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Object storage (redirect from BLOB)
later eclipsed by the retroactive explanation of blobs as "Binary Large Objects". According to Starkey, "Blob don't stand for nothin'." Rejecting the acronym...
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enabling all free operating systems to become or remain blob-free. The issue of binary blobs in the Linux kernel and other device drivers motivated some...
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Linux kernel (section Firmware binary blobs)
repository, contains binary blobs released under the terms of the GNU GPLv2 license. Linux can also search filesystems to locate binary blobs, proprietary firmware...
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The Blob is a 1958 American science fiction horror film directed by Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. from a screenplay by Theodore Simonson and Kate Phillips, based...
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such as Raspberry Pi 3/4) Raspberry Pi can use a VideoCore IV GPU via a binary blob, which is loaded into the GPU at boot time from the SD-card, and additional...
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established as a distribution of coreboot, but with some proprietary binary blobs removed from coreboot. Libreboot makes coreboot easy to use by automating...
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The Blob franchise consists of American science fiction monster-horror films, including the Steve McQueen-led original, its campy comedic sequel, and its...
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Connected-component labeling (redirect from Blob extraction)
labeling can operate on a variety of information. Blob extraction is generally performed on the resulting binary image from a thresholding step, but it can be...
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DKMS supports both the rpm and deb package formats out of the box. Binary blob Free and open-source software portal "Fixes for ldtarball · dell/dkms"...
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Linux-libre is a modified version of the Linux kernel that contains no binary blobs, obfuscated code, or code released under proprietary licenses. In the...
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entries it is just the base to produce binary packages, so the total number of packages is the number of binary packages. For Arch based entries, it is...
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Executable and Linkable Format (redirect from ELF binary)
and core dumps. First published in the specification for the application binary interface (ABI) of the Unix operating system version named System V Release...
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database. It can also index through binary columns, and use iFilters to extract meaningful text from the binary blob (for example, when a Microsoft Word...
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a primary focus to remove some binary blobs. osboot - A variant similar to Libreboot that scrapped its only some blobs policy to increase hardware support...
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only binary drivers for most of their product line and one partially free and open-source driver for the G550 card which comes with a binary blob to enable...
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Oliver B. Bumble, comic series and name of its main character Opaque binary blob, a file format, which is (among others) used by the Android operating...
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longer mentioned in later manuals. Mimer SQL 11.0: supported. Binary large object Binary blob "Oracle CLOB in JavaDB". docs.oracle.com. Retrieved 2018-08-16...
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a binary blob. Pirates could trivially produce an ELM327 clone by purchasing the same microcontroller chip and programming it with the copied blob. ELM327...
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objections to binary-only drivers based on copyright, security, reliability and development concerns. As part of a wider campaign against binary blobs, OpenBSD...
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Larabel, Michael. "Purism's Librem 5 To Rely On Secondary Processor For Binary Blobs - Phoronix". www.phoronix.com. Amadeo, Ron (26 September 2019). "Purism's...
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Software Personalization). The term “SHSH blob” is unofficial and based on abbreviations for signed hash and binary large object. An alternative term, ECID...
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licenses, as well as the Beerware license. Some device drivers include a binary blob, such as the Atheros HAL of FreeBSD versions before 7.2.[failed verification]...
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proprietary software that may not be available in source code form, such as binary blobs required for some device drivers. A Linux distribution may also be described...
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operating systems. Because of the project's preferred BSD license, which allows binary redistributions without the source code, many components are reused in proprietary...
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wrapper (CPU-RM) for the GPU System Processor (GSP) firmware, a RISC-V binary blob that is now required for running the open-source driver. The GPU System...
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simplify the X server, and libGL-fglrx-glx [needs update] could use the libDRM of the radeon open-source driver instead of the proprietary binary blob....
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non-existent domains, and blocking internal requests to those domains. Removing binary blobs from the Chromium code and replacing them with custom alternatives. Adding...
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