UEFI

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Revision as of 01:50, 31 December 2012

Secure Boot, UEFI, or "Restricted Boot" as the FSF calls it, is a threat to computing freedom. It was covered in the following posts.

• Microsoft Dictatorship Divides and Conquers Linux With Novell, Red Hat, and Ubuntu
• Red Hat Does Not Want to Defend Its Position on UEFI
• Restricted Boot Arguably Fought Against by Linux, Not Just GNU
• UEFI Problems Addressed by Linux Developers, Not Distributions
• TechBytes Episode 69: Richard Stallman on ‘Secure’ Boot (UEFI), Coreboot, GRUB, and Boot Freedom
• UEFI Debate Rages on While New Workarounds and Advice Surface
• Debian Follows the FSF’s — Not Red Hat’s — Footsteps Regarding UEFI
• FSF and FSFE Both Speak Out Against UEFI; Ubuntu Drifts Away From FSF, Whereas Debian Comes Closer to FSF
• Features of Vista 8 Focused on Errors, Antifeatures
• Canonical and Red Hat Receive Negative Publicity Over Submissive UEFI Choices
• Coverage of the Free Software Foundation’s Response to UEFI
• The FSF Moves From Petition to Recommendations Regarding UEFI Fight
• With UEFI, Microsoft Assaults the General Public License (GPL) and Computing Freedom in General
• Answers to Microsoft’s UEFI Plot Summarised, More Pretence That Microsoft is ‘Open’
• Vista 8 Will Drive More OEMs to GNU/Linux
• FSF Says Microsoft’s Flagging of Its Site as ‘Gambling’ is Wrong; FSF’s Anti-UEFI Petition Grows Popular, Debian Joins
• Ubuntu and UEFI
• Red Hat Fails to Convince That UEFI is Tolerable, Uses ‘Security’ as Talking Point
• Red Hat Was Wrong About UEFI, Failed to Ask the Users
• Linus Torvalds Disputes Security of UEFI
• Red Hat Criticised for Advancing Microsoft’s UEFI Agenda
• Microsoft’s Monopolistic Abuses Continue as Red Hat and Fedora Tax Are Put in Place
• Microsoft Corporation — Not Just Microsoft Windows — a SPAM Leader; UEFI Not the Answer
• Microsoft Cannot Defend UEFI
• SUSE to Help Microsoft With UEFI Agenda
• The Early Demise of Vista 8 and the Obsolescence of UEFI
• Ubuntu Acknowledges UEFI Mistake by Taking FSF Advice
• Microsoft Breaks the Web and Linux
• Linux Wins the Devices OS War, Microsoft Tries to Lock it Out With UEFI
• Microsoft Can’t Understand Security (Lesson for UEFI Apologists)
• Ubuntu Decided to Stay With GPLv3 After Public Backlash
• Garrett a Microsoft Apologist
• Vista 8 is Not Selling, But Microsoft’s UEFI Scheme Blocks Linux Installations/Booting
• Microsoft Proves Techrights Right by Screwing UEFI ‘Partners’
• New PCs Cannot Boot Linux Due to Microsoft Dirty Tricks
• Vista 8 Signals the End of Windows Domination; Microsoft Starts Lying (Fake Numbers), Block GNU/Linux
• UEFI Apologists Versus Germany’s Government Judgment on UEFI Insecurity
• New Reports Show How Microsoft Rendered New Hardware Linux-hostile Out of the Box Using UEFI Demands
• Guest Post: UEFI’s Effects on the User
• Supporting UEFI in 2012 is Like Supporting OOXML in 2007
• Vista 8 Continues to Fail, But Succeeds at Suppressing GNU and Linux Installs
• Vista 8 Fails This Xmas, UEFI Blocks GNU and Linux While Microsoft Tries Collecting in China, Stopping Sales of Open PCs