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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Is AMDvbflash safe? what is going with it? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi everyone i have some issue with my gpu vbios(i bought an used gpu with custom bios than dont support uefi) and need to flash a good one on it. I really don't want to dual boot window just to do it so i research for a way to do it on linux. I found this post but the github repo isnt here anymore. I found a backup of it on the wayback machine. But i am not sure if it is safe or not. If it is safe why was the repo closed what happened to it?

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[–] just_another_person 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just boot a Windows recovery image from USB if there is concern.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I can do THAT? I didnt know that window have a live boot environment like Linux. Thank you I will give it a try

[–] just_another_person 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The Windows Recovery doesn't give you a full desktop, but you should be able to launch executables from a shell. If that doesn't work, there are also ways to run Windows from USB.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

You can boot it in a VM and do it from a VM. In fact even if the VBIOS is completely broken, you can still usually override the VBIOS in libvirt/qemu and boot it anyway and then you can flash it.