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Canonical To Use Efilinux For UEFI Secure Boot
Canonical will drop Grub 2 in favour of Intel's efilinux as its bootloader in order to comply with Microsoft's UEFI Secure Boot.
Following Red Hat announcing its plans to ensure that Fedora will not fall afoul of Microsoft's UEFI Secure Boot mechanism, Canonical has detailed how it plans on working with Microsoft's 'security feature' [by] modify Intel's efilinux bootloader to add a menu interface.
For machines that come preloaded with Ubuntu, Canonical will store the Ubuntu key in firmware. The company will require machines that have “Ubuntu certified” labels to have the Ubuntu key stored in the UEFI signature database.
Source: TheInquirer.net
Nvidia Stuffs Up Huge Chinese Order
While Nvidia probably does not care too much about the one fingered protest from Torvalds, it might be more miffed that it has lost a huge order from the Chinese government for the same reason. The Chinese wanted to order ten million GPUs that would work with its Longsoon processors and home-built, Linux-based OS.
Longsoon chips are MIPS-based, and Nvidia's Linux driver doesn't support that architecture. For 10 million GPUs, Nvidia should have shared the driver source code to get the MIPS capable, but it seems that the company did not want to do that either claiming that it would cost it millions to do that. As a result the order was given to the more open source friendly AMD. Being stubborn cost Nvidia about $500 million.
Source: techeye.net
New Asus PC Comes with Ubuntu
The new EeePC 1225C, [is] an 11.6-inch notebook device that features the all new Intel Atom Cedar Trail dual-core CPU and Canonical's popular Ubuntu Linux operating system.
It's becoming increasingly common to see PCs preloaded with Ubuntu, and it wasn't long ago that I [PC Advisor] wrote about a few new examples from Linux-focused vendor System76.
Asus, it should be noted, already has a Linux-friendly history, too; this time last year I was writing about a MeeGo-based offering in its lineup, for example.
Now, this latest entry from Asus adds another compelling choice to the mix.
Source: pcadvisor.co.uk
Google Currents
Google Currents has been released worldwide, so install it on your Android/Apple devices, search for 'full circle' (in the app) and add issues 55-60 to your app. Or, you can click the links on the FCM download page for those issues.