[ubuntu-it] brutta notizia...

[Roberto Preziusi]

On 09/21/2011 11:11 PM, ivo4linux wrote:
> Il 21/09/2011 22:47, elvis ha scritto:
>> Il 21/09/2011 19:29, supernova ha scritto:
>>> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/09/windows-8-secure-boot-prevent-linux-installation/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28OMG%21+Ubuntu%21%29&utm_content=FaceBook
>>
> Sono indignato è veramente uno schifo. Per il desk non sarà mai un
> problema visto che lo da solo ma coi portatili ...


no panic, primo non è ancora detto che windows8 inserirà la tecnologia
UEFI e secondo leggevo che anche se fosse hanno già trovato dei
possibili workaround:
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6948856710.html

Potential Linux workarounds

The potential threat of a UEFI-related Microsoft freeze-out has been
discussed in the Linux community since shortly after the release of the
new UEFI secure boot implementation in April, notes NetworkWorld. In
June, Jake Edge warned of the possibility in a LWN.net article on the
technology.

Faced with such a lock-out, Linux distributions could possibly work
around the problem by providing signed versions of Linux, but due to
Grub licensing issues, this would require a non-GPL bootloader, explains
Garrett. Complicating the issue further are future plans for the Linux
kernel to be further integrated with the bootloader. In this case, any
such workaround would also require that the kernel be signed as well, he
adds.

UEFI consists of data tables with platform-related information, plus
boot and runtime service calls that are available to the operating
system and its loader. UEFI was derived from the Intel-created "EFI"
(Extensible Firmware Interface) standard, which in 2005 was renamed to
"Unified EFI" and placed under the jurisdiction the UEFI Forum. The EFI
was famously criticized in 2006 by Linux creator Linus Torvalds as,
"this other Intel brain-damage (the first one being ACPI)."



bye
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Preziusi Roberto