Fedora 18 will support UEFI Secure Boot

  

Matthew Garrett, Core Developer from Red Hat, publishes a detailed article on Fedora 18. It will introduce support for UEFI Secure Boot. UEFI Secure Boot will be a future Windows 8 compatible hardware technology. To ensure that the operating system is booted only if the correct digital signature is in place.

The new UEFI, the full name "Unified Extensible Firmware Interface" (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface), is a standard that describes the new type of interface in detail. This interface is used by the operating system to automatically load from a pre-booted operating environment to an operating system, which makes the booting process simple and saves time.

The Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) is Intel's recommended standard for the architecture, interfaces, and services of new types of PC firmware. Graphical hardware setting interface in UEFI The main purpose of the graphical hardware setting interface in UEFI is to provide a set of properly specified startup services on all platforms before OS loading (before startup), which is considered to be The successor to the PC BIOS for nearly 20 years of history.

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