On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Karin Bakis <kbakis(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Muktware
Red Hat Clarifies Doubts Over UEFI Secure Boot Solution
Wed, 2012-06-06 04:13 by Swapnil Bhartiya
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.
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.
If secure boot is so good, why is Linux community worried about it?
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."
Full article:
http://www.muktware.com/3699/secure-boot-uefi-fedora-red-hat-99-ubuntu-mi...
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If good, FSF would not started a campaign vs with this. So, 99$ is now,
after? 199$?... So you are pay a Microsoft company for can be used your
system? So, Debian, Slackware, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenSUSE, Mageia... and
more not pay, but RedHat "possibly"? Maybe, RedHat should help mixing with
Cannonical, SUSE, FreeBSD Foundation, iXSystems and more companies affected
by this and sue Microsoft by monopoly!
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
FSF vs UEFI secure boot campaign
http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/statement
Matthew Garrett, RedHat kernel developer talk about it.
http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html
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