Even if you’re rocking the most open of open-source operating systems, chances are your laptop isn’t really that “free,” betrayed by closed firmware binaries lurking deep within the hardware itself.

These images are mostly provided in the form of a bootable ISO, in order to make them easy to use with boot media creators such as Rufus. However, these can also readily used by: Partitioning and ...

And the nice thing is that, because any failure of validation for the points we describe above is very easy to detect, you can rest assured that, even if you do not go through these steps yourself, ...