FSF Criticises Ubuntu For Dropping Grub 2 For Secure Boot

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Submission + - FSF Criticises Ubuntu For Dropping Grub 2 For Secure Boot (muktware.com)

Submitted by sfcrazy on Monday July 02, 2012 @09:49AM

sfcrazy writes: The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has published a whitepaper recommending free operating systems how to deal with UEFI secure boot. In the whitepaper, the foundation has criticized the approach Canonical/Ubuntu has taken to deal with the problem.

"Ubuntu has chosen a path which explicitly allows Restricted Boot."

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