Fedora 18 and UEFI

Antonio Olivares olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Sat Jul 7 17:37:36 UTC 2012


> > http://lwn.net/Articles/503803
> >   That this means that from F18 on,
> fedora will cost 99$ for every installation?
> > 
> 
> Discussion on fedora-devel is still ongoing:
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-June/167732.html
> 
> But from what I gather,
> the fedoraproject as vendor,
> will pay Microsoft who will provide a signing service.
Verisign not Micro$oft right?

Some folks did not agree with Red Hat on this one:

http://techrights.org/2012/06/13/red-hat-closed/

> 
> The fedora end-use will pay nothing.
> But read the thread for the to and fro.
> 

Canonical(Ubuntu) has taken another approach to the UEFI problem 

http://lwn.net/Articles/503995/rss

http://www.teknoids.net/content/ubuntus-plans-implement-uefi-secureboot-no-grub2

http://www.teknoids.net/content/ubuntu-cant-trust-fsfs-secure-boot-solution

Who is right?  What will happen later on?

As soon as Windows 8 is released will we be able to figure this out right?  

Regards,


Antonio 


More information about the users mailing list