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Description

Name of the software

fwupd

Project/product Homepage

https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/

Why we should include this into the repository, i.e. what does it do that the alternatives do not?

Solus currently does not have an alternative for it. fwupd helped a lot getting older net- and notebooks back to work.

Is it open source?

Yes

If it is open source, please provide a link to the most up to date, versioned source tarball/zipfile. master.zip links will not be accepted.

https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/releases/tag/1.8.2

If there are no upstream releases but the inclusion policy is otherwise met, please provide a link to the source repository (i.e. GitHub)

https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/

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I feel like this shouldn't be merged into a task that has seen no real movement for over 4 years.

fwupd is an integral tool in reviving old shitty laptops and while the idea of merging fwupd into the package manager or eventually Sol is noble, as far as i know Sol is still in "design phase".

We need fwupd faster then that, because using it via snap or flatpak is pure hell.

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