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After several conversations with the Free Software Foundation (FSF), Canonical decided to go back and use GRUB 2 as default bootloader de Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal. |
A few weeks ago, Canonical announced that the next version of Ubuntu would not have GRUB 2 as its default bootloader. This decision was made due to Canonical's previous decision to create their own key for machines with secure UEFI boot, and since GRUB 2 is licensed under the GPL, they assumed that this would force them to share their security key.
From an open source point of view that would be ideal, but from a security point of view it would be a risk as malicious users could use the Ubuntu key to create "malware certificates" that would have unrestricted access to files. Machine 'BIOS' (UEFI): The malware problem designed for BIOS was precisely one of the reasons that Microsoft and other companies decided to favor the replacement of old BIOSes with new UEFIs.
A post on Canonical's official blog explains the reason for the address change:
In discussions with the Free Software Foundation (FSF), which owns the copyright for Grub 2, it is clearly stated that secure boot with Grub 2 does not pose a security risk in the diffusion of the security key. Our OEM partners (hardware manufacturers) also confirmed to us that variations to the Ubuntu certification program, and high quality control installer pre-scripts were introduced to ensure that the security of the user's choice is maintained on Ubuntu machines. . Therefore, it was decided that Grub 2 is the best choice for a bootloader and we will only use GRUB 2 on Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 12.04.
Source: OMG! ubuntu
I will buy it! xd
I said that xd
I imagine that is a saying !! because Ubuntu is not sold, it sells services but the desktop OS is free.
"... and we will only use GRUB 2 on Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 12.04."
and in later versions, no?
Well that this "problem" has been solved there, the one that they should now seek to solve is that of the INTEL and AMD processors that will not run (supposedly) Linux, it seems to me a very serious problem since now in October comes the wave of tablets with windows 8 in which it will not be possible to install linux (in theory) so good series if there were any alternative besides not buying the device.
And why do you want to put Linux on one of those tablets?
sale?
screenshot?