Mentre Fedora 18 ha confermato il supporto a Secure Boot in Spherical Cow, il mondo *BSD sembra per ora fermo e non interessato a cercare una valida soluzione. A ulteriore conferma di ciò Theo de Raadt, il fondatore di OpenBSD in un’intervista su ITWire ha dichiarato:
Non abbiamo piani, non sappiamo cosa faremo.
Written by: Sam Varghese | Published in: Open SauceIt's early days for secure boot, the new method that Microsoft is using to protect its desktop turf, but it would not be unfair to say that the company has succeeded in showing up the sharply fragmented nature of GNU/Linux.
Written by: Sam Varghese | Published in: Open SauceOne of the questions surrounding openSUSE 12.2, which was released mid-week, is whether it already supports secure boot, the Microsoft initiative that will be an integral part of Windows 8 when that operating system is released on October 26.
Written by: Sam Varghese | Published in: SecurityMicrosoft is apparently unwilling to discuss the reasons behind its move to a so-called secure boot process for Windows 8, the next release of its operating system.
Written by: Sam Varghese | Published in: SecurityIs the process of "secure" boot, that Microsoft plans to regulate through the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, a reaction to the real-world presence of boot-time malware?
Written by: Sam VargheseAfter Red Hat revealed how it would kowtow to the overlords at Redmond, it was only a matter of time before Canonical would genuflect as well over the issue of secure boot.
{loadposition sam08}But Canonical, which is best known for its Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution, has come up with a way of getting its distribution to boot on PCs certified for Windows 8 that is even worse
Written by: Sam VargheseThe Free Software Foundation says it strongly rejects any approach to computer security that involves placing trust in Microsoft or any other proprietary software company.
{loadposition sam08}Instead, the organisation, in a white paper on Microsoft's secure boot proposal and the fallout thereof, said users should be able to both easily disable secure boot and to use their
Featured | Written by: Sam Varghese | Published in: Open SauceIn three short months, Windows 8 will be upon us. And with it will come the phenomenon known as "secure boot", one that is going to have an extraordinary effect on the lives of most computer users.
Written by: Sam Varghese | Published in: Open SourceThe founder of the Free Software Foundation, Richard M. Stallman, has slammed Ubuntu over its provision of Amazon search results for a regular search, prompting Canonical's community manager, Jono Bacon, to hit back, accusing him of spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD).
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