{"id":240231,"date":"2026-05-06T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/dell-lenovo-now-sponsoring-the-linux-vendor-firmware-service\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T09:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:45:08","slug":"dell-lenovo-now-sponsoring-the-linux-vendor-firmware-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/dell-lenovo-now-sponsoring-the-linux-vendor-firmware-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Dell &#038; Lenovo Now Sponsoring The Linux Vendor Firmware Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Dell-Lenovo-Sponsoring-LVFS\">Dell &#038; Lenovo Now Sponsoring The Linux Vendor Firmware Service<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Dell-Lenovo-Sponsoring-LVFS\">https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Dell-Lenovo-Sponsoring-LVFS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-06 09:10:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.phoronix.com\">www.phoronix.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dell and Lenovo have stepped up to become premier sponsors for the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) that provides for seamless system firmware and device\/component firmware updating under Linux with the Fwupd client.<\/p>\n<p>Dell and Lenovo are the first two premier sponsors for the LVFS, complementing start-up sponsors of Framework Computer and Open Source Firmware Foundation. The Linux Foundation and Red Hat remain engineering support sponsors.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=dell_lenovo_lvfs_med\" alt=\"Dell + Lenovo laptop firmware updates\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Many Dell and Lenovo systems over the years have supported firmware updating under Linux using Fwupd\/LVFS, so it&#8217;s great to see them now provide the highest-tier financial support to this open-source effort. A premier sponsorship level for LVFS is $100,000 USD in annual dues.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=lvfs_warning_3_med\" alt=\"LVFS tiers\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Dell and Lenovo becoming premier sponsors follows LVFS calling for more companies to contribute code or sponsor.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Hughes announced these hardware vendors joining LVFS sponsorship as the project celebrates shipping more than 145 million firmware updates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Dell-Lenovo-Sponsoring-LVFS\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dell &#038; Lenovo Now Sponsoring The Linux Vendor Firmware Service https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Dell-Lenovo-Sponsoring-LVFS Publish Date: 2026-05-06 09:10:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&image=dell_lenovo_lvfs","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71,94],"class_list":["post-240231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux","tag-red-hat-enterprise-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240234,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240231\/revisions\/240234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}