Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (269 mails)

[Ricardo Chung <amon0.thoth1@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, June 25, 2012 11:54:57 AM M. Edward  Borasky wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Ricardo Chung <amon0.thoth1@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> > Sure not before openSUSE 12.3. The way UEFI+SecureBoot will impact other
> > than Windows 8 operating systems will be certainly known after the next
> > 6 months. The ARM architecture is the critical one (Windows Logo
> > Certification specification forbid to disable SecureBoot ). Other like
> > x86 architecture might be flexible (including a way to disable the
> > SecureBoot option).
> >
> > In the meantime, another option than Fedora+RedHat have decided is not
> > visible shortly.
> >
> > The more we know about the UEFI+SecureBoot and boot requirements process
> > will increase our chances to propose another approach.
>
> Canonical / Ubuntu just announced their approach. I don't remember the
> details, but it was different from Red Hat / Fedora's and involved
> replacing GRUB2 as the bootloader because the GPL wouldn't allow what
> the Ubuntu team proposes. Personally, I think the fewer GPL components
> a system has, the better, but I'm not in a position to impose that on
> others. ;-)

Edward,

You are right. Ubuntu is planning their own deployment on Ubuntu OEM by 
replacing Grub2 with "Intel's efilinux" 
(http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Canonical-details-Ubuntu-UEFI-Secure-
Boot-plans-1624444.html)
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-June/035445.html

I would dare to say this is more reactive than anything else to generate the 
general opinion. 

Regards,

-- 
Ricardo Chung | Panama
Linux & FOSS Ambassador
openSUSE Projects
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