[ubuntu-uk] efi boot, Windows 8 and Linux

[Juan J. Martínez]

On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 17:12 +0100, paul sutton wrote:
> [...]
> >> As Alan says, in the short term though, Linux will have to adapt to EFI
> 
> what does EFI mean,?

Extensible Firmware Interface (was developed by Intel, now it's UEFI and
it's supposed to be "more open"... but I think most of the time people
uses EFI term instead of UEFI). 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface

It's a replacement for the BIOS.

Regards,

Juan

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