Posted by Avik Sarkar
On 6/04/2012 02:08:00 pm
Fedora 18 Added UEFI Secure Boot (Security-Key Purchased From Microsoft)
Many of us knows that Microsoft has been pushing hardware vendors for Secure UEFI as part of Windows 8. The tldr version of UEFI is that it's secure encryption on the physical hardware at the pre-boot layer. Basically in order to boot the hardware will have to have a secure key. But while making UEFI a very basic problem arose and that is it won't easily allow people to load Linux. To get rid of this burning issue Red Hat's Fedora Linux has a solution and it's not one that is entirely satisfactory. Fedora will buy a key via Microsoft that will enable it to run. This is the solution now being offered up by Fedora developer Matthew Garret (and his blog post has fantastic details about the whole concept and the deliberation) The key costs $99 and the funds go to VeriSign (though hardware signing is done via Microsoft). The problem of course is that Fedora will perhaps be tied to Microsoft's Secure UEFI efforts in order to enable Linux on new hardware. The bigger problem would be if Secure UEFI wasn't dealt with and Linux wouldn't run on new hardware at all.
After eliminating options of creating their own Fedora key or an overall Linux key as too complex or costly, Garrett says they have decided to opt for the "least worst" option; have Microsoft sign Fedora. So for $99, Microsoft offer a signing service and this should ensure compatibility with a wide range of hardware. "If there are better options then we haven't found them" he added.
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Posted by Avik Sarkar
On 5/09/2013 04:30:00 pm
Debian Linux 7.0 Code Named 'Wheezy' Released & Added Multiarch Support, Several Specific Tools
Once it was
one of the most popular Linux distribution which have drawn the maximum
attention, yes you are right I am talking about none other than Debian Linux. Now
a days the craze of this flavor has became little fade but as
the foundation for other, more popular Linux distributions, such as Mint, Ubuntu and few Pen
Testing Distro, still the value of Debian exist. So
the up-gradation and new release of this Linux flavor is
still very much important. And today I will talk about the new release
of Debian Linux
version 7.0 code named 'Wheezy'. After many months of constant development, the developers at Debian
project proudly announced the
general availability of the next version of this major Linux which is
Debian 7.0 aka 'Wheezy'. According to the release note - This new version of Debian includes various interesting
features such as multiarch
support, several specific
tools to deploy private clouds, an improved installer, and a complete set of multimedia
codecs and front-ends which remove the need for third-party repositories. Multiarch support,
one of the main release goals for Wheezy
, will allow Debian users to install packages from multiple
architectures on the same machine. This
means that you can now, for the first time, install both 32- and 64-bit
software on the same machine and
have all the relevant dependencies correctly resolved, automatically. The installation process has been greatly improved: Debian
can now be installed using software speech, above all by visually impaired
people who do not use a Braille device. Thanks to the combined efforts of a
huge number of translators, the installation system is available in 73 languages, and
more than a dozen of them are available for speech synthesis too. In addition, for the first time, Debian supports installation and booting
using UEFI for new 64-bit PCs (amd64), although there is no support for Secure Boot yet.
This Release Includes Numerous Updated Software Packages, Such as:-
- Apache 2.2.22
- Asterisk 1.8.13.1
- GIMP 2.8.2
- An updated version of the GNOME desktop environment 3.4
- GNU Compiler Collection 4.7.2
- Icedove 10 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird)
- Iceweasel 10 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Firefox)
- KDE Plasma Workspaces and KDE Applications 4.8.4
- kFreeBSD kernel 8.3 and 9.0
- LibreOffice 3.5.4
- Linux 3.2
- MySQL 5.5.30
- Nagios 3.4.1
- OpenJDK 6b27 and 7u3
- Perl 5.14.2
- PHP 5.4.4
- PostgreSQL 9.1
- Python 2.7.3 and 3.2.3
- Samba 3.6.6
- Tomcat 6.0.35 and 7.0.28
- Xen Hypervisor 4.1.4
- The Xfce 4.8 desktop environment
- X.Org 7.7
Along with these more than other 36,000 ready-to-use software packages, built from nearly 17,500 source packages also included in Debian Linux 7.0. So after reading all those cool features, what you are waiting for lets download the installation image via bittorrent (the recommended method), jigdo, or HTTP.
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