THE VIDEO SHELF · uefi and secure boot
EFI and Linux: the future is here, and it's awful - Matthew Garrett
Matthew Garrett's linux.conf.au 2012 talk covers EFI and UEFI from the Linux point of view: why the PC BIOS was bad, what EFI changes, the issues it brings, and Secure Boot.
Why HN readers recommended it
Pointed to as an entertaining, informative explanation of why UEFI is troublesome, from a Linux UEFI developer.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Linux.conf.au 2012 -- Ballarat, Australia
- Topic
- uefi and secure boot
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2012–2017
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Matthew gave an awesome talk on UEFI at linux.conf.au 2012 [0]. A thoroughly entertaining and informative talk on issues including secure boot, but also other issues with UEFI. It even got voted one of the best four talks at the conference, so he did the …
pserwylo on Hacker News · 2012-11
In More in the series of bizarre UEFI bugsEFI even talks FAT and there exists licensing such that you can use FAT for EFI reasons without any patent worries. I'm not saying that's a bad decision, just pointing out it is another thing that happened. I heard that fact in a linux.conf.au talk …
forgottenpass on Hacker News · 2013-11
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