Shutting the gates on Linux

Summary: New criticism of the Linux-hostile hardware layer measure which claims to improve security whilst in fact offering almost none

THE talented journalist Sam Varghese, a man who likes to dive deep into issues, says that "Microsoft 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."

He backs this assertion and shows that UEFI might be good for nothing but impeding GNU/Linux adoption. Linus Torvalds claims it's no good for security.

As another up-to-date release of OpenSUSE is expected, we remain without answers from the Microsoft-funded SUSE as to how it plans to cope with UEFI. This is going to be interesting to watch. ⬆