<html><head></head><body><div>While the original gummiboot sources are gone, the code still exists but was merged into everyone's favorite tool: systemd</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Gummiboot-Is-Dead">https://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Gummiboot-Is-Dead</a></div><div><br></div><div>So Linux systems still have a EUFI boot tool but it's part of systemd as SD-boot. Looks like the entire code base was dumped in and renamed SD-boot. The original author worked on both projects.</div><div><br></div><div>I have not used it nor have I poked at it.</div><div><br></div><div>ArchLinux has more info on using it</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd-boot">https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd-boot</a></div><div><br></div><div>Sort of like when serial mice were dropped from the kernel. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Thu, 2016-01-21 at 16:23 -0500, Steve Litt wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><pre>On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 08:26:39 -0600
Preston <<a href="mailto:preston.lists@gmail.com">preston.lists@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
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Very disappointed with this:
"Up until recently, the Linux Foundation allowed the individual
members to elect two board members and ensure that the voice of Linux
community is considered at the board meetings. In a shocking change,
the Foundation has erased this clause and decided to benefit the
corporate companies rather that whole community."
<a href="http://fossbytes.com/why-linux-foundations-latest-change-is-a-bad-new-for-open-source/">http://fossbytes.com/why-linux-foundations-latest-change-is-a-bad-new-for-open-source/</a>
Preston
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This surprises me not one bit. Linux Foundation is organized for big
corporations, not for the unpaid developers and non-corporate users who
built Linux in the first place. Here's a quote from Wikipedia:
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Its funding comes primarily from its Platinum Members: Fujitsu, HP,
IBM, Intel, NEC, Oracle, Qualcomm, and Samsung and for many years
Hitachi.[23] These nine each having a representative on the Board of
Directors, they hold a majority on the 16-person board.[24]
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What I find quite scary about this is that the Linux Foundation
possesses one of the few all-distro methods to boot with Secure Boot.
The microsecond their major contributors decide an all-distro method to
boot Secure Boot is contrary to their bottom line, none of us have an
all-distro method, unless we find the last version, and fork it.
According to gummiboot Wikipedia page
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gummiboot_(software">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gummiboot_(software</a>) :
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In May 2015, gummiboot was fully integrated into systemd to form its
systemd-boot component that serves as a UEFI boot manager.[2][3]
Following this action, the source code repository of gummiboot was
emptied out in July 2015.
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"The source code repository of gummiboot was emptied out in July 2015."
Makes it just a little harder to fork, doesn't it?
>From where I stand, corporate Linux will foreclose user choice if such
foreclosure enhances the corporation's bottom line.
Unless you own or are paid by a big corporation, Linux Foundation is
not your friend.
SteveT
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gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
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