Windows 8 PCs will come with Microsoft's UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) Secure Boot. This "feature" will make it much harder to boot Linux or other operating systems. Canonical, Ubuntu ...

Hate to bump, only going to do it once. I was hoping somebody else has had this exact problem. I think the solution will end up being running a specific bluetooth disable command during the ...

Linux users may face yet another hurdle related to Secure Boot when the Microsoft-signed key used by many distributions to support the firmware-based security feature expires on September 11, leaving ...

We're in the home stretch now. In the first post of this series I looked at the general characteristics of Linux installations on systems with UEFI firmware - specifically how the disk is partitioned, ...

The folks at the Linux Foundation have come up with a way to make sure that you’ll be able to install an open source operating system on most computers that ship with Windows 8. Up until now, it’s ...

(RTTNews) - Microsoft (MSFT) released updates to fix a vulnerability that unintentionally caused problems for dual-boot PCs running Windows and various Linux distributions during its latest Patch ...

I replaced a hard drive for a friend and did a clean Ubuntu 11.04 install. Everything was fine until the other day, when we had one of our somewhat frequent power failures. Now, his machine will POST, ...

There’s been considerable concern in recent weeks over the secure boot mechanism planned for Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8, primarily among Linux users and others worried that the technology will ...