Jeff Moe made subsequent modifications to meet certain requirements for its use with the BLAG Linux and GNU distribution.

Without the ability to perform a security audit on manufacturer-provided firmware, even an innocent bug could undermine the safety of the running system.

[21] Microcode update bundles have been used in the mainline Linux kernel version, among other things, to mitigate hardware vulnerabilities.

[22] The source code and precompiled packages of the deblobbed Linux kernel are available directly from the distributions which use the Linux-libre scripts.

[25] Considered small distributions Historical These distros do not use the packaged Linux-libre but instead completely remove binary blobs from the mainline Linux kernel.