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Systemd Getting UEFI Boot Loader

Posted by Soulskill on from the one-module-among-many dept.

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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  1. Re:I can't wait! by ArsonSmith · · Score: 0, Troll

    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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  2. Re:My FreeBSD Report: Four Months In by igloo-x · · Score: -1, Troll

    Are you being dense in purpose?

    No, but evidently you're content being an ungrateful little douchebag. You're entirely free to keep using pre-systemd versions of your preferred distribution, but that isn't enough, is it? You want people to continue volunteering their free time maintaining them for you. Despite the fact they (evidently) pretty much all prefer to use systemd themselves. You apparently don't give a toss about their freedom of choice.

  3. Re: tl;dr by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 0, Troll

    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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  4. Re:I love this conversation. by igloo-x · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah, we're getting desperate now nobody is adopting systemd.

    oh wait

  5. Re:My FreeBSD Report: Four Months In by Barsteward · · Score: -1, Troll

    you really are an ignorant troll

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  6. Re:My FreeBSD Report: Four Months In by Barsteward · · Score: -1, Troll

    well, blow me down with a feather, software has bugs, i never knew that. the sky is falling

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