• Linux
  • By Bogdan Popa
  • June 1st, 2020
Linux Lite 5.0 “Emerald” Is Now Available for Download

Linux Lite 5.0 “Emerald” Is Now Available for Download

The final version of Linux Lite 5.0 is now up for grabs

  • Security
  • By Sergiu Gatlan
  • September 28th, 2018
Fancy Bear Attacks Governments Using LoJax UEFI Rootkit

Fancy Bear Attacks Governments Using LoJax UEFI Rootkit

Attacks can be blocked by enabling Secure Boot

GhostBSD 10.3 "Enoch" Officially Released with ZFS and UEFI Support, More

GhostBSD 10.3 "Enoch" Officially Released with ZFS and UEFI Support, More

Ships with both Xfce and MATE desktop environments

UEFI Firmware ThinkPwn Zero-Day Puts Several Laptop OEMs at Risk

UEFI Firmware ThinkPwn Zero-Day Puts Several Laptop OEMs at Risk

Currently confirmed: Lenovo and HP laptops

GhostBSD 10.3 Development Continues, Now with UEFI Support for 64-Bit Platforms

GhostBSD 10.3 Development Continues, Now with UEFI Support for 64-Bit Platforms

The BSD operating system will be based on FreeBSD 10.3

  • Security
  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • January 27th, 2016
VirusTotal Adds Support for Scanning Malicious Firmware Images

VirusTotal Adds Support for Scanning Malicious Firmware Images

Users can utilize it to detect rootkit malware

  • Linux
  • By Silviu Stahie
  • November 25th, 2015
Solus Is Getting Its Own UEFI Boot Loader Forked from gummiboot

Solus Is Getting Its Own UEFI Boot Loader Forked from gummiboot

Another piece of interesting news from the Solus project

  • Linux
  • By Marius Nestor
  • October 14th, 2015
Snappy Ubuntu Core 15.04 Receives Secure Boot Support in Its Seventh Update

Snappy Ubuntu Core 15.04 Receives Secure Boot Support in Its Seventh Update

The UEFI boot received some improvements

Android-x86 Now Based on Android 5.1.1 Lollipop, Supports UEFI PCs and 64-Bit Kernels

Android-x86 Now Based on Android 5.1.1 Lollipop, Supports UEFI PCs and 64-Bit Kernels

64-bit kernels are now supported by Android-x86

Qubes 3.0 Linux OS Ships with Killer Features, Qubes 3.1 to Bring a Live USB Edition

Qubes 3.0 Linux OS Ships with Killer Features, Qubes 3.1 to Bring a Live USB Edition

The release is dedicated to Caspar Bowden

  • CPU
  • By Horia Despa
  • September 19th, 2015
AMI Adds Bluetooth Keyboard Support to UEFI Firmware

AMI Adds Bluetooth Keyboard Support to UEFI Firmware

Not really an innovation, but better late than never

Pinguy OS 14.04.3 Gets EFI and TRIM Support, Based on Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS

Pinguy OS 14.04.3 Gets EFI and TRIM Support, Based on Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS

Adobe Flash has been removed in favor of Pepper Flash

Gorgeous Arch Linux-Based Apricity OS Gets New Beta with Google Chrome 45, More

Gorgeous Arch Linux-Based Apricity OS Gets New Beta with Google Chrome 45, More

There are also improved UEFI support and dock functionality

Ubuntu-Based Peppermint OS 6 Receives Full UEFI and Secure Boot Support

Ubuntu-Based Peppermint OS 6 Receives Full UEFI and Secure Boot Support

There's also GUID Partition Table (GPT) support

Debian Needs Your Help to Improve UEFI Support in the Distribution

Debian Needs Your Help to Improve UEFI Support in the Distribution

There's now a new UEFI team over at Debian

Mageia 5 Linux Officially Released with Support for UEFI Systems and Btrfs

Mageia 5 Linux Officially Released with Support for UEFI Systems and Btrfs

Now available as GNOME and KDE Live DVDs

  • Linux
  • By Marius Nestor
  • June 3rd, 2015
LibreOffice 4.4.3 Lands in Ubuntu 15.04, Snappy Desktop Next UEFI Support Coming Soon

LibreOffice 4.4.3 Lands in Ubuntu 15.04, Snappy Desktop Next UEFI Support Coming Soon

GTK+ 3.16.3 toolkit has been merged with Debian

 
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