12/13/2023 0 Comments For apple instal Blank And Secure 7.66![]() ![]() ![]() If you are a linux user, I suggest you check out FreeBSD. It’s just one coherent project, instead of tons of distributions-on-distributions, and the focus is on developing quality software. It’s free, it’s open source, and it does everything I need it to. Choice is important, right? Well good, because I can choose alternatives, such as FreeBSD. I simply don’t want to be associated with these people and their crazy ideas and conduct in any way. Pragmatic as always, the linux community feels that their license is holy, and that the rest of the world is wrong, and has to adapt to their ways (which has worked just great so far, hasn’t it?).Īnd this is the sort of thing that drives me away from linux. Now, the simple solution would be to create a license that is compatible with UEFI, so linux too can support secure booting. So the GPL is locking linux out from participating in UEFI’s trusted boot sequence, which is meant to prevent rootkits from installing on your system unnoticed (is that such an evil thing?) ![]() This restriction means that the secure key for booting cannot be kept a secret. The short version is that the GPL (specifically version 3) doesn’t allow any kind of binary code to be distributed without source code. A far more balanced article that was released earlier, can be found here. Where, as usual, linux is trying to play the victim, and blame everything on evil Microsoft.Įxcuse me? But linux is doing it to themselves. You get over-the-top articles like this one. I did not bother to blog about it at that time… But as new ARM-based devices for Windows 8 are being introduced, the issue is being recycled by the linux community. Now, back in late September/early October, there was some buzz when word got out that Microsoft wanted to have UEFI secure boot enabled by default for Windows 8 systems. Aside from that, the attitude of the linux community does not appeal to me. ![]() And I am interested in software development, not politics. GPL is more of a political manifest if anything. I think the BSD license offers considerably more freedom. It’s not so much the software itself, as it is the culture. In fact, I am both a user of FreeBSD, and a developer of open source projects. As you may know, I have nothing against open source software. ![]()
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