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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."
Many features
In the bloat
Off to FreeBSD
In a safety boat
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Just wait. One of these days I expect to read, "Systemd to get Emacs editor."
This is an evil ploy to prevent freedom-seeking users from trying Windows 10 alongside Systemd OS.
I for one have been waiting for the promise of a UEFI bootloader for some time, but as an avid Systemd fan I can't help but wonder when Pottering and the team are going to get off their lazy asses and implement a systemd version of the Kernel. The Kernel (linux, ganoo, whatever) is old, inefficient, and can be handled much better by systemd. dmesg is a confusing command too. to replace it in systemd you would just issue a simple systemctl service engage geiss wobble manager=1 --upchuck --lasermode /var/tmp/var/eng/lib/lib64/service/svc/portal/optimized/Skernel.wrapper to get the same data converted from a binary disk image into real text, imaginary text, a full color background, and a chart-topping indie song (--noyuke to remove yukelele) Its really quite simple and I dont understand why linux makes such a fuss about their old fashioned kernels.
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This was the only piece that was missing from systemd.
It's still missing a good editor.
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Fedora has been using it for years now and it has been fine.
Mostly fine.
Does it have any internal security?
It has UEFI Secure Boot. That means that it is now secure.
Well, you see, I don't have a problem with systemd not working. My problem is that systemd is a great OS that lacks a decent init system.
That's awesome. Has systemd been ported yet? That's the only absolute must-have I have that's keeping me in GNU/Linux, if systemd is available on FreeBSD I'll switch over tonight.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Coming to Netflix this fall: "Systemd is the new EMACS"
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What next, systemd incorporates a mysql server?
How else would you properly store all your binary log files?
That would be ridiculous. MySQL is so last year. systemD needs something far more Big Data.