Sites like fwupd

01 · Entity

About fwupd

fwupd fwupd.org

LVFS: Home

Wikidata: firmware update management software for Linux

Top 10K · #5,395 English 4 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026

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Summary by Claude

Home of fwupd, an open-source daemon for updating device firmware on Linux, and the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS), a free portal where hardware vendors upload firmware that Linux distributions distribute to clients like fwupdmgr and GNOME Software.

Who it’s for

Hardware vendors, Linux distributions and Linux users

Business model

Vendor sponsorships and donations

• Linux firmware updates
• firmware update distribution
• fwupdmgr
• LVFS vendor portal
• cab firmware archives
• UEFI capsule updates
• GNOME Software firmware
• device firmware metadata

02 · Embedding space

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1. 01
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   Gentoo Linux gentoo.org Top 10K English

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3. 03
   Debian debian.org Top 1K English

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   GNOME gnome.org Top 10K

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5. 05
   Ubuntu ubuntu.com Top 1K English

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   openSUSE opensuse.org Top 10K English

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   Fedora Project fedoraproject.org Top 10K

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   Arch Linux archlinux.org Top 10K English

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    centos.org Top 10K English

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    Linode linode.com Top 1K English

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Technology

What fwupd is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.