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Linux Foundation Struggles With Microsoft UEFI Signing
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Cannot be easier:
1. have a MS live account
2. have a tool to handle MS Cabinet files and wrap your bootloader binary int it
3. have a tool to sign MS Cabinet files
4. have a MS OS that can run Silverlight to upload the signed binary
Four steps and four times the work MS in it
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personally I see this as nothing to worry about. Considering how poorly Windows 8 is doing and the fact that implementing this UEFI seems to be a pain in the ass for hardware vendors, i don't think this will last. I'm sure most hardware manufacturers will just say "screw it, this isn't worth the effort and customer complaints".
I'm sure that most people who buy a system with Windows 8 on it and intend to replace it with another OS will not be putting linux on it but probably android.
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Originally posted by matyas View PostAnd so it begins... UEFI is unleashed upon the world and the Linux Foundations is having issues with proprietary technologies from Microsoft. The fact the we need a "Microsoft UEFI Signing" process is really sad. One can only guess how much grief this will generate down the road. I'm pessimistic about this one...
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I read
UEFI
"Secure" Boot
Microsoft
Symantec
Silverlight
.net
cabinet file
hurdles with the 7 stage process
in one article and suddenly I feel the urge to KILL people!
So we're waiting for MS to sign our bootloader so maybe we can boot from the next generation of mainboards? lol.Stop TCPA, stupid software patents and corrupt politicians!
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View Postpersonally I see this as nothing to worry about. Considering how poorly Windows 8 is doing and the fact that implementing this UEFI seems to be a pain in the ass for hardware vendors, i don't think this will last. I'm sure most hardware manufacturers will just say "screw it, this isn't worth the effort and customer complaints".
I'm sure that most people who buy a system with Windows 8 on it and intend to replace it with another OS will not be putting linux on it but probably android.
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Originally posted by BO$$ View PostMicrosoft up to its old tricks again.... This is why I fucking hate them. They are evil and they enjoy fucking others up. Like, just for pleasure, not always for money. I wonder what the engineers think of the management there.
this makes me happy (no irony!).
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View Postpersonally I see this as nothing to worry about. Considering how poorly Windows 8 is doing and the fact that implementing this UEFI seems to be a pain in the ass for hardware vendors, i don't think this will last. I'm sure most hardware manufacturers will just say "screw it, this isn't worth the effort and customer complaints".
I'm sure that most people who buy a system with Windows 8 on it and intend to replace it with another OS will not be putting linux on it but probably android.
I am very sure I did not found so elegent solution: Fill markets with computers which can't run GNU/Linux. If someone would had said that to me, I would maybe had thought that he is an idiot. It is so simple, elegant, and unimaginable 10 years ago because of many reasons.
Now I think ANYTHING is possible by big corporations.
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