<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Karin Bakis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kbakis@redhat.com" target="_blank">kbakis@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Muktware</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Red Hat Clarifies Doubts Over UEFI
Secure Boot Solution</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Wed, 2012-06-06 04:13 by Swapnil
Bhartiya</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
(UEFI) secure boot is a major worry for GNU/Linux user as it will
make it impossible for them to install their favourite distro on
hardware with secure boot.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Microsoft is pushing for secure boot
with Windows 8 which is slated to be out within a year. The
restrictions Microsoft is pushing on the hardware vendors is
undoubtedly a concern for Linux user. However, at the same time,
experts like Linus Torvalds believe that Secure Boot is a good thing
and instead of fighting with it we should sign our own modules. Linux
is known for it's security so secure boot does eliminate some
real-world exploits where fraudulently modified early boot code has
introduced vulnerabilities into the operating system.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in">If secure boot is so good, why is Linux
community worried about it?</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Red Hat's Tim Burke explains, "A
major shortcoming of the initial UEFI secure boot implementation was
the lack of easy to use accommodations for operating systems other
than Microsoft Windows, including the many variants of Linux."</p>
<br>Full article:<br><br><a href="http://www.muktware.com/3699/secure-boot-uefi-fedora-red-hat-99-ubuntu-microsoft" target="_blank">http://www.muktware.com/3699/secure-boot-uefi-fedora-red-hat-99-ubuntu-microsoft</a><br>
<br><br><div>Karin Bakis<br>Public Relations<br>Corporate Marketing<br>Red Hat, Inc.<br>Email: <a href="mailto:kbakis@redhat.com" target="_blank">kbakis@redhat.com</a><br>Office: <a href="tel:978-392-1096" value="+19783921096" target="_blank">978-392-1096</a><br>
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<br>So, OEM's vendors such as DELL, HP, Acer... and others is pressured by Microsoft for lock UEFI secure boot and cannot install another operative system that hasn't got these certifies, signs...et<br><div><br></div>
<div>FSF vs UEFI secure boot campaign <a href="http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/statement">http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/statement</a></div><div><br></div><div>Matthew Garrett, RedHat kernel developer talk about it. <a href="http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html">http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html</a></div>
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