UEFI Secure Boot planned to be implemented in Fedora 18

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Tue Jun 26 21:53:03 UTC 2012


On 06/26/2012 02:38 AM, compdoc wrote:
>> Source: The Inquirer (http://s.tt/1fN89)
>>Point being is that it is (IMO) much better to post the full link 
>>rather than sending list members off on a shortened link.
> 
> That link is provided by The Inquirer website when you copy text from their
> articles. It's not something I shortened and stuck in there. 

Well I'll be... you are correct & I apologise. I couldn't figure out
what the heck you were talking about, so I copied some of the article
and pasted here:

<paste>
Canonical will use Intel's efilinux in Ubuntu for UEFI secure boot
Drops Grub after years of work
By Lawrence Latif
Mon Jun 25 2012, 14:00

LINUX VENDOR Canonical will drop Grub 2 in favour of Intel's efilinux as
its bootloader in order to comply with Microsoft's UEFI Secure Boot.

Following Red Hat's Fedora project announcing its plans to ensure that
its Linux distribution will not fall afoul of Microsoft's UEFI Secure
Boot mechanism, Canonical has detailed how it plans on working with
Microsoft's 'security feature'. The company will dispense with Grub 2, a
Linux bootloader that it put significant work into, and modify Intel's
efilinux bootloader to add a menu interface.

Source: The Inquirer (http://s.tt/1fN89)
</paste>

And sure enough, there is the 'Source' link. Again, my apologies.








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