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rephrase 'What?'
Refer to LinuxBoot as a concept and omit specifics; we leave that for the book. Move the image further down. Signed-off-by: Daniel Maslowski <info@orangecms.org>
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**Tired of reinventing the wheel by implementing drivers for firmware again and again?**</br>
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**Not with LinuxBoot!**
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![](images/linuxboot_info.png)
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### What?
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LinuxBoot is a firmware for modern servers that replaces specific firmware
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functionality like the UEFI DXE phase with a Linux kernel and runtime.
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LinuxBoot is the concept of using a Linux kernel and runtime as a bootloader.
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It started as *NERF* in January 2017 at Google.
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The [`linuxboot`](https://github.com/linuxboot/linuxboot) repository contains a
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build system implementing LinuxBoot primarily targeting servers and PCs, which
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started as [*NERF*](https://trmm.net/NERF) in January 2017 at Google.
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![](images/linuxboot_info.png)
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LinuxBoot is a Linux Foundation project and as such has a [technical charter](
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../../docs/Technical_Charter_01_25_18.pdf).

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