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Unlike RHAT, Ubuntu will have its own signing infrastructure for keys for secure boot
Unlike RHAT, Ubuntu will have its own signing infrastructure for keys for secure boot - Oops!! So why do we need micoshaft keys if micoshaft is given the boot? Looks like Linux has crashed the party again - this time at the OS pre-install arena. ...
Message posted on the June 22nd, 2012 - 2:40 PM ET
UEFI and Secure Boot: Canonical develops an Ubuntu key
Canonical manages an Ubuntu key for systems with UEFI Secure Boot activated. They have also announced that they will be abandoning GRUB 2 from Ubuntu 12.10.
News published on the June 25th, 2012 - 9:35 AM ET
Research and Markets: Linux Bible 2011 Edition: Boot up to Ubuntu, Fedora, KNOPPIX, Debian, openSUSE, and 13 Other Distributions
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/04b467/linux_bible_2011_e) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Linux Bible 2011 Edition: Boot up to Ubuntu, Fedora, KNOPPIX, ...
Press published on the May 10th, 2011 - 10:19 AM ET
Stormfly: a Ubuntu desktop on the wrist
The scenario is well known: it is difficult to trust your children on the family computer, between the parental controls that need to be set and the increased risk of virus contamination; the simple use of separate user accounts just isn’t enough. ...
News published on the February 5th, 2013 - 3:14 PM ET
UEFI Technology Adopted by Linux Community
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Forum gains momentum as use of UEFI specifications increases in Linux-based operating systems, such as Canonical's Ubuntu 12.10, Fedora 18 and OpenSUSE 12.3.
Press published on the March 19th, 2013 - 11:00 AM ET
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Bug#702254: ITP: sbsigntool -- Utility for signing and verifying files for UEFI Secure Boot
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Pierre Chifflier <pollux@debian.org> * Package name : sbsigntool Version : 0.6 Upstream Author : Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com> * URL : ...
Message posted on the March 4th, 2013 - 10:00 AM ET
UEFI, Boot managers and GRUB
Ubuntoids I finally managed to boot up my new laptop, got into the BIOS and enabled legacy boot mode. I booted into Windows 8 and resized the main Windows partition to give myself 250GB space for Linux. I then booted from a USB stick that had ...
Message posted on the May 13th, 2013 - 9:49 AM ET
Windowps 8 insecure boot hacked, Ubuntu jilts micorshaft and goes with FSF to give hacked insecure boot the boot
Windowps 8 insecure boot hacked, Ubuntu jilts micorshaft and goes with FSF to give hacked insecure boot the boot http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/opinion/software/3399910/ubuntu-linux-changes-its-plans-for-windows-8-secure-boot/ Well that didn't take ...
Message posted on the September 21st, 2012 - 7:54 PM ET
Vista and Ubuntu peaceful coexistence
Hello everyone, I've seen a fair amount of definite friction in here between the resident Vista supporters and Ubuntu supporters. Me, I have them both installed on my main system, and I dual-boot between them (although I admit, Vista is my primary ...
Message posted on the January 13th, 2009 - 5:15 PM ET
[News] Ubuntu GNU/Linux 10.4 Continues Receiving Good Reviews and Industry Support
Hash: SHA1 Ubuntu 10.4 lives up to the hype ,-[ Quote ] | With Ubuntu 10.4 there is a lot of good and | it begins with the installer. One of the | issues I’ve had with Live CDs is that a new- | to-Linux user has trouble understanding the | ...
Message posted on the May 3rd, 2010 - 7:39 AM ET
System won't boot: "missing or corrupted \WINNT\SYSTEM32\config/system"
I have a Gateway 500S, Pentium IV computer preloaded with XP Home Edition, SP3 (never had an installation disk.) I use antivir and zonealarm over the OEM antivirus/firewall, have updated spybot and adaware, checking from time to time. sometimes I ...
Message posted on the September 6th, 2010 - 5:17 AM ET
EFI BoF at DebConf
[ Please note the cross-post and Reply-To ] Hi folks, Here's a summary of what we discussed in the EFI BoF [1] last week (9th July). Thanks to the awesome efforts of the DebConf video team, the video of the session is already online [2] in case ...
Message posted on the July 20th, 2012 - 6:40 PM ET
Bug#698914: grub-efi booting Windows 8 in UEFI mode
Hi all, I experienced similar problem on an ASUS X20E1 with pre-installed Windows 8 image and UEFI. I used Wheezy RC1 netinst image fetched from the site and dd-ed to the USB stick. In order to install Debian I had to turn off Secure Boot in ASUS ...
Message posted on the April 24th, 2013 - 11:20 AM ET
Once again: Mark Shuttleworth is a voice of reason
<http://blog.canonical.com/2011/10/28/white-paper-secure-boot-impact-on-linu x/> OR <http://blog.canonical.com/?p=> UEFI is a good step forward How much do you know about the BIOS running on your laptop today? Sure, you probably have ...
Message posted on the October 28th, 2011 - 5:41 PM ET
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