Life is full of trade-offs, and many times they are not palatable for every side. Such was the trade-off proposed by Fedora developers this week to solve the upcoming obstacle of UEFI secure booting on Windows 8-certified machines.. All Windows 8 machines will need to be have the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) instead of the venerable BIOS firmware layer. BIOS has been pretty much the sole firmware interface for PCs for a long time. The link for this article located at IT World is no longer available. . Explore the ways in which Fedora engineers suggest compromises for UEFI secure boot functionality on Windows 8 systems while addressing security issues.. UEFI Security, Secure Boot Process, System Firmware, Fedora Developers, Windows 8 Integration. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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