Systemd Getting UEFI Boot Loader

New submitter mrons writes: Many new features are coming for systemd. This includes the ability to do a full secure boot. As Lennart Poettering mentions in a Google+ comment: "This is really just about providing the tools to implement the full trust chain from the firmware to the host OS, if SecureBoot is available. ... Of course, if you don't have EFI SecureBoot, than nothing changes. Also if you turn it off, than nothing changes either. [sic]" Phoronix notes, "Gummiboot is a simple UEFI boot manager that's been around for a few years but only receives new work from time-to-time. Lennart and Kay Sievers are looking at adding Gummiboot to systemd to complete the safety chain of the boot process with UEFI Secure Boot. Systemd will communicate with this UEFI boot loader to ensure the system didn't boot into a compromised state."

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So, UEFI is a good thing now?

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Lennart and Kay Sievers are looking at adding Gummiboot to systemd to complete the safety chain of the boot process with UEFI Secure Boot

So, UEFI is no longer a trick by the evil monopoly to lock computer-owners in and forever prevent them from running free software, but a good thing helping ensure safety of the boot process?

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Don't get too comfy! One of these days FreeBSD is going to require you to learn something new and you'll be pissing, whinging and throwing the baby out with the bathwater about that, too.