Libreboot Installation Service

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Most people will probably be happy simply purchasing what Minifree regularly sells as part of its normal stock. However, you can send us your machine for a fee and Minifree will flash it for you.

Minifree can also sell you any sort of custom hardware from its own inventory, if you wish; the products listed on minifree.org are merely what Minifree sells as regular products, but Minifree deals with all sorts of custom requsets all the time. So for example if you don’t already have the hardware you would send us, you might be better off simply telling Minifree what hardware you want and Minifree could source it for you directly, and sell the hardware to you.

Libreboot is a free/open source BIOS/UEFI replacement, providing boot firmware that initialises the hardware in your computer, to then load an operating system (e.g. Linux/BSD). It provides many secondary benefits such as fast boot speeds, greater security and greater customisation, but the primary benefit is software freedom. You can rest easy knowing that Libreboot will never knowingly contain backdoors, and will never spy on you; the same cannot be said for many proprietary products out there. All of the source code is provided in each Libreboot release, which can be fully audited. Based on coreboot, Libreboot provides regular updates, usually every few months, even on much older hardware, thus increasing the longevity of your hardware. Minifree’s customers regularly come back for more; we frequently have people buying multiple machines from Minifree, which means that Minifree is their chosen supplier of computers.

You can send your machine to Minifree, if you want professional Libreboot installation to be performed on your machine. Minifree has years of experience. Leah Rowe, the founder and owner of Minifree Ltd, is also the founder and lead developer of the Libreboot project! These sales are conducted, in order to provide funding for Libreboot.

This is a standalone service, and it covers 1 machine.

Minifree will also offer a basic refurbishment as best it can, for the machine that you send. For example if it’s a bit dirty, Minifree will clean the machine, though as a courtesy you may wish to clean it yourself before sending.

Minifree will provide you with a shipping address when you order this service.

If you’re sending multiple machines, Minifree will offer custom pricing depending on the machines you’re sending; for example if you were sending a ThinkPad T440p to work on, which is a bit more labour intensive, and then also sending a T480 which is less so, Minifree might charge £350 or something like that, instead of £500. Minifree will negotiate the price with you when you wish to order.

The headline £250 price is merely the minimum cost. Depending on the machine you’re sending, Minifree may in fact increase the cost; for example if you’re sending a machine that takes a lot more hours to do, such as a ThinkPad W500 and you also wanted a lot of extra mods done, Minifree would charge more.

Quoted shipping cost covers Minifree’s return shipping. You must arrange your own shipping separately, when sending products to Minifree.

Only available for people residing within the United Kingdom. If you’re in another country, you can still purchase regular products from us if you wish, such as the Libreboot T480 and Libreboot 3050 Micro.

Dealing with customs when customers send packages to Minifree from abroad causes a lot of time to be spent, so we prefer to only export whenever possible. Minifree’s export procedures are much more automated.

This British-only policy was put in place on 26 March 2025; we may still offer this service to people living abroad, depending on the circumstance. For example if you’re stopping by and staying in the UK for a while, you could send Minifree your product while you’re here.

We do not accept in-person visits. You will send your product in the mail, and Minifree will send it back to you once the work is complete.

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