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Red Hat and Canonical claim Microsoft's UEFI implementation is buggy

posted onJanuary 20, 2012
by l33tdawg

Open Source companies Red Hat and Canonical have highlighted serious concerns about a Microsoft plan to rid the world of rootkits, arguing that Redmond’s UEFI technology is "buggy".

Microsoft’s UEFI is an attempt to address the recent explosion in the number of viruses and other malware targeting low-level system services. Known as rootkits, these attacks are capable of infecting systems at a level that's difficult or impossible to detect with traditional anti-virus software, and often require complete system rebuilds to fix.

Canonical seeking testers for Unity 5.0

posted onJanuary 13, 2012
by l33tdawg

The Unity development team at Canonical has published a development build aimed at testers of version 5.0 of its custom desktop interface for the Ubuntu Linux distribution. Users running the current Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" alpha can install the preview release by manually adding the Unity PPA, which is hosted on the Unity Team's Launchpad.net page.