Tag Archives: linus torvalds

Linux, the Dunning-Kruger OS

Posted on July 19, 2013 by Scali

Over the years, I’ve seen a pattern emerge. I have documented this on various occasions. Such as the time when Jed Smith thought he knew about Windows security features such as ACLs. Or that time when Linus thought he had … Continue reading →

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First Fedora, now Canonical

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Scali

Following the move made by Fedora to support UEFI secure boot, Canonical has announced that they are going to support it as well. Canonical is taking a slightly different route however. They are dropping Grub completely (as they explain, Grub’s … Continue reading →

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Voice of reason, quite…

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Scali

For those who didn’t quite get the irony of the previous blog title… I generally find Linus Torvalds to be quite unreasonable. So I was rather surprised by his sensible response. But trust Linus to generate some positively outrageous outbursts only … Continue reading →

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Linux and UEFI secure boot, or: Linus Torvalds as the voice of reason

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Scali

As you may recall, I wrote a blog about linux and the problems with UEFI secure boot a while ago. Since there have been some changes regarding secure boot in the linux world recently, this calls for an update. My … Continue reading →

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