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...

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...

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...

later eclipsed by the retroactive explanation of blobs as "Binary Large Objects". According to Starkey, "Blob don't stand for nothin'." Rejecting the acronym...

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...

repository, contains binary blobs released under the terms of the GNU GPLv2 license. Linux can also search filesystems to locate binary blobs, proprietary firmware...

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...

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...

established as a distribution of coreboot, but with some proprietary binary blobs removed from coreboot. Libreboot makes coreboot easy to use by automating...

The Blob franchise consists of American science fiction monster-horror films, including the Steve McQueen-led original, its campy comedic sequel, and its...

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...

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"...

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...

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...

and core dumps. First published in the specification for the application binary interface (ABI) of the Unix operating system version named System V Release...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

a binary blob. Pirates could trivially produce an ELM327 clone by purchasing the same microcontroller chip and programming it with the copied blob. ELM327...

objections to binary-only drivers based on copyright, security, reliability and development concerns. As part of a wider campaign against binary blobs, OpenBSD...

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...

Software Personalization). The term “SHSH blob” is unofficial and based on abbreviations for signed hash and binary large object. An alternative term, ECID...

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]...

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...

operating systems. Because of the project's preferred BSD license, which allows binary redistributions without the source code, many components are reused in proprietary...

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...

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....

non-existent domains, and blocking internal requests to those domains. Removing binary blobs from the Chromium code and replacing them with custom alternatives. Adding...