<div dir="ltr">Regarding big media being the driver behind UEFI/secure boot, I wonder if there is the hand of apple somewhere in this. While the original EFI specs were developed by intel, apple were the first to start utilising it Given the expansion of the itunes store and apples control over the iphone/ipod touch/ipad platforms (which I've found some in the oss community appear to be ignoring - if the proliferation of apple devices at barcamp events I saw was anything to go by)<div>
<br></div><div style>UEFI does offer advantages over the long obsolete BIOS, the only questions now are surrounding the long term implications of secure boot (although since I use fedora, I seem to be ok for now)</div></div>