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Fedora, secure boot, and an insecure future

Fedora, secure boot, and an insecure future

Posted Jun 11, 2012 11:50 UTC (Mon) by cortana (subscriber, #24596)
In reply to: Fedora, secure boot, and an insecure future by nix
Parent article: Fedora, secure boot, and an insecure future

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?


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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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