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Fedora, secure boot, and an insecure futureFedora, secure boot, and an insecure futurePosted Jun 11, 2012 11:37 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Fedora, secure boot, and an insecure future by csamuel Parent article: Fedora, secure boot, and an insecure future
I'd have assumed that... but the company I bought Linux hardware from last is now selling machines advertised as 'Linux-friendly', every one of which requires a binary-only module for its network card and another binary-only module for its graphics. So allowing user recompilation of kernels doesn't seem to be a long way up vendors' priority lists :(
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Fedora, secure boot, and an insecure future Posted Jun 11, 2012 11:50 UTC (Mon) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]
I've come to begrudgingly accept that proprietary graphics drivers are a fact of life, but I really don't understand the recent (or so it seems to be) fetish with proprietary ethernet drivers! A decade ago any cheap PC had an onboard VIA or Realtek ethernet interface that worked fine with open drivers... what has changed?
Fedora, secure boot, and an insecure future Posted Jun 12, 2012 1:37 UTC (Tue) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
Complex, proprietary wireless stacks covered by tenuous patents.
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