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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."
Just because there are 3-4 naysayers doesn't mean systemd isn't the best thing possible for Linux. It really is the one and only thing that Linux has been missing for more than 20 years. Now that we have an all encompassing boot process we can do away with all the other crap sold under the guise of "choice" and settle on a single system that works all the time and does everything you should want to do.
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He creates issues and fractures the community, and then blames everyone else for the problems.
I see. WTF are you using Linux for then? Hell, Torvalds is a bit of a pill himself, so you should switch to an OS only made by really nice people.
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