For some time now I have gotten a slow but steady volume of requests that I write about UEFI firmware and EFI boot relative to installing and maintaining Linux. As a result of a casual comment I made ...

Secure Boot is a feature of your PC's UEFI that only allows approved operating systems to boot up. It's a security tool that prevents malware from taking over your PC at boot time. While it's not ...

My recent series of posts concerning UEFI and Secure Boot technology has drawn several comments and questions about the possibility of installing only Linux on such a system. I have just had to ...

There’s been considerable concern in recent weeks over the secure boot mechanism planned for Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8, primarily among Linux users and others worried that the technology will ...

Red Hat, Canonical and the Linux Foundation have laid out a set of recommendations for hardware vendors in hopes of preserving the ability to install Linux on Windows 8 machines. Windows 8 machines ...