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● 02.25.13

●● Torvalds Curses Over UEFI Stupidity, Gets Upset at Red Hat (Updated)

Posted in GNU/Linux, Kernel, Microsoft, Red Hat at 9:21 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: Red Hat an accomplice in Microsoft’s restricted boot plans and Linus Torvalds is not happy

Torvalds’ complaints about UEFI restricted boot are nothing new. That anticompetitive scheme from Microsoft is polluting the kernel with binaries which merely serve to help discriminate against Linux and Torvalds has just opened his mouth again, sending out a “NSFW Red Hat rant”:

=> ↺ UEFI restricted boot | nothing new | ↺ just opened his mouth again

Linux overlord Linus Torvalds has again vented his spleen online, taking on Red Hat employee David Howells with a series of expletive-laden posts on the topic of X.509 public key management standard.The action takes place on the Linux Kernel Mailing List, with Howell posting a request that Torvalds “pull this patchset please”.Howells wants the patchset pulled so Red Hat can “”embed an X.509 certificate containing the key in a section called ‘.keylist’ in an EFI PE binary and then get the binary signed by Microsoft.” This arrangement, he suggests, is more elegant than the way the Linux kernel signs certificates today. Torvalds’ initial response is “Not without a lot more discussion first”, because “Quite frankly, this is f*cking moronic. The whole thing seems to be designed around stupid interfaces, for completely moronic reasons. Why should we do this?”

For future reference, here is the original context dated Thursday, 21 Feb 2013 15:47:58 (GMT). Thanks, Torvalds, for doing the Right Thing® in this case. █

=> ↺ the original context

Update: Linus Torvalds To Secure Boot Supporters: This Is Not A Dick-Sucking Contest

=> ↺ Linus Torvalds To Secure Boot Supporters: This Is Not A Dick-Sucking Contest

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