Free software is software you can use, share, modify and redistribute. Is the beaglebone black freedombox software entirely free software? No non free software on the computer what so ever?
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FreedomBox image for Beaglebone Black board contains entirely free software. You can see how it is built entirely from Debian packages (in main) here. I uses u-boot, Linux, etc.
Most ARM hardware has some boot and initialization firmware that may not be free. However, this is burnt in and can’t be updated by the user. So most people don’t seek for it to be free software.
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