Secure Boot Linux & Open-Source News |
| Fedora 45 Considering A Lightened GRUB Bootloader For Confidential Compute | Fedora | 2026-06-13 |
| KDE Linux Prunes Its Insecure & Unused Software | KDE | 2026-05-31 |
| Coreboot + AMD openSIL Powered Firmware Published For The Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 | AMD | 2026-05-15 |
| Ubuntu 26.10 Looks To Strip Its GRUB Bootloader To The Bare Minimum For Better Security | Ubuntu | 2026-03-25 |
| Fwupd 2.1.1 Released With Lots Of New Hardware Support | LVFS | 2026-03-12 |
| GRUB 2.14 Bootloader Released With EROFS Support, Shim Loader Protocol | GNU | 2026-01-14 |
| IncusOS Announced As Immutable Linux OS With ZFS For Running Containers | Operating Systems | 2025-11-07 |
| Fedora's Reproducible Package Build Mandate Deferred To F44 | Fedora | 2025-09-03 |
| AlmaLinux Introduces Native NVIDIA Support Using Open-Source Kernel Driver | NVIDIA | 2025-08-06 |
| Linux's Lockdown LSM Back To Being Maintained For Restricted Computing | Linux Kernel | 2025-07-31 |
| AMD Hardware Feedback Interface & CPUID Faulting Merged For Linux 6.17 | AMD | 2025-07-30 |
| Debian 13 Installer RC2 Fixes An Annoying Issue, Improves Btrfs Rescue Handling | Debian | 2025-07-02 |
| UEFI SBAT Support Coming Together Ahead Of Linux 6.17 | Linux Kernel | 2025-06-23 |
| AlmaLinux 10.0 Stable Released - Unlike RHEL 10, It Continues Supporting x86-64-v2 CPUs | Operating Systems | 2025-05-27 |
| GRUB Bootloader Received 73 Patches To Fix A Variety Of Recent Security Issues | GNU | 2025-03-24 |
| Linux 6.15 Plans To Drop Support For A Useless CRC-32 Checksum In The Kernel Image | Linux Kernel | 2025-03-22 |
| Fedora 43 Hopes To Set An Expectation That Package Builds Are Reproducible | Fedora | 2025-03-19 |
| Limine 9.0 Bootloader Drops EXT4 File-System Support | Free Software | 2025-02-17 |
| Microsoft Continued With Many Linux & Open-Source Announcements In 2024 | Microsoft | 2024-12-31 |
| Fedora's Captivating 2024 With Many New Features & Leading Innovations | Fedora | 2024-12-28 |
| systemd 257 Debuts With systemd-keyutil & systemd-sbsign Tools, Other Improvements | systemd | 2024-12-10 |
| systemd 257-rc1 Released With A Ton Of New Features & Changes | systemd | 2024-11-06 |
| Fedora 41 Releases Today With Many Shiny New Features | Fedora | 2024-10-29 |
| Fedora 41 Beta Released With Many Leading-Edge Linux Enhancements | Fedora | 2024-09-17 |
| Arch Linux Based CachyOS Switches To Open NVIDIA Kernel Modules, COSMIC Desktop Option | Arch Linux | 2024-08-18 |
| Fedora Will End Up Supporting The NVIDIA Driver With Secure Boot | Fedora | 2024-07-16 |
| openSUSE Aeon Prepares For Comprehensive Full Disk Encryption | SUSE | 2024-07-12 |
| GNOME Software To Better Support NVIDIA's Proprietary Linux Driver | GNOME | 2024-06-17 |
| Fedora Making Strides On Enabling Greater AI Use, Easier AMD ROCm PyTorch Acceleration | Fedora | 2024-06-16 |
| Debian Seeing Work To Support systemd-boot | Debian | 2024-06-03 |
| XZ Backdoor, Nova Driver, Linux 6.9 Features & Ubuntu 24.04 Made For An Exciting April | Phoronix | 2024-05-01 |
| Nova Driver, Linux 6.9 Features & Other Linux News From March | Phoronix | 2024-04-01 |
| Linux 6.9 Makes A Change To Satisfy Microsoft For EFI x86 Shim Loader Signing | Linux Kernel | 2024-03-13 |
| Coreboot-Based Dasharo Firmware Updated For MSI Z690/Z790 Motherboards | Coreboot | 2024-01-22 |
| Memtest86+ 7.0 Released With IMC Polling & Initial ECC Polling | Hardware | 2024-01-07 |
| Fedora 40 Eyes The Ability To Boot Unified Kernel Images Directly | Fedora | 2023-12-06 |
| Linux 6.7 Reducing The Roles For Some Insecure/Obsolete Crypto Algorithms | Linux Kernel | 2023-11-04 |
| Linux 6.7 Reworks PE Header Generation To Reduce Attack Area | Linux Kernel | 2023-10-29 |
| Red Hat Working On Delayed Module Signature Verification To Speed-Up Linux Boot Times | Linux Security | 2023-09-15 |
| Fedora May Make It Easier To Switch To systemd-boot, Making A GRUB-Free System | Fedora | 2023-06-22 |
| System76's Coreboot Open Firmware Manages To Disable Intel ME For Raptor Lake | Coreboot | 2023-06-02 |
| Ubuntu Details Initial Plans For Immutable Linux Desktop With Ubuntu Core & Snaps | Ubuntu | 2023-05-31 |
| Debian Installer Bookworm RC3 Released Ahead Of Next Month's Debian 12.0 | Debian | 2023-05-16 |
| memtest86+ 6.20 Released With Improved Support For Older Systems | Free Software | 2023-05-07 |
| Debian Installer Bookworm RC2 Released | Debian | 2023-04-29 |
| Debian Fixes Secure Boot For 64-bit ARM After Being Broken For Two Years | Debian | 2023-04-24 |
| Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS Released With Restored UEFI Secure Boot Support | Ubuntu | 2023-03-23 |
| AMD Launches The EPYC Embedded 9004 Series | AMD | 2023-03-14 |
| systemd 253 Released With Ukify Tool, systemd-cryptenroll Unlocking Via FIDO2 Tokens | systemd | 2023-02-15 |
| systemd 253 Is Near With RC3 Out For Testing | systemd | 2023-02-10 |
| memtest86+ 6.10 Released With UEFI Secure Boot Signing, Headless EFI | Hardware | 2023-02-03 |
| systemd 253-rc2 Released With More Changes To This System & Service Manager | systemd | 2023-02-02 |
| AMD Continued Its Great Linux Embrace In 2022 With Better Launch-Day Support + Optimizations | AMD | 2022-12-31 |
| Fedora 38 Plots Path To Unified Kernel Support | Fedora | 2022-12-20 |
| New Dasharo v1.1 Firmware For The MSI Z690 Board - DDR5 Variant Now Supported, ME Disable | Coreboot | 2022-11-22 |
| HP-BIOSCFG Driver Being Worked On For HP Laptop BIOS Management Under Linux | Linux Kernel | 2022-10-15 |
| VirtualBox 7.0 Released - Full VM Encryption Support, Direct3D Acceleration Using DXVK | Virtualization | 2022-10-10 |
| Generic EFI Compressed Boot Support Prepped Ahead Of Linux 6.1 | Linux Kernel | 2022-09-25 |
| Ubuntu Isn't Yet Onboard With GNOME's "Device Security" Screen | Ubuntu | 2022-08-28 |
| IBM Power Improvements For Linux 6.0 Support The PowerVM Platform KeyStore | Linux Kernel | 2022-08-08 |
| Systemd Creator At Microsoft, Retbleed, Rust's Continued Growth & Other July Highlights | Phoronix | 2022-08-01 |
| GNOME To Warn Users If Secure Boot Disabled, Preparing Other Firmware Security Help | GNOME | 2022-07-29 |
| Linux Lands Fix For A Trivial Lockdown Bypass Bug | Linux Security | 2022-07-20 |
| New Lenovo AMD Laptops With Pluton Co-Processor Reportedly Only Boot Windows By Default | Hardware | 2022-07-08 |
| Linux 5.19 Adding Support For The PolarBerry RISC-V FPGA Board | RISC-V | 2022-06-03 |
| Coreboot 4.17 Brings New Motherboards, AMD PSB, Doom Game Ported To Run As A Payload | Coreboot | 2022-06-02 |
| Open-Source Firmware For The MSI Alder Lake Motherboard Taking Shape | Hardware | 2022-05-11 |
| Fedora 37 Looks To Deprecate Legacy BIOS Support | Fedora | 2022-04-05 |
| AMD To Expose More PSP Security Information Under Linux, Including State Of CPU Fuses | AMD | 2022-03-30 |
| OpenBMC 2.11 Released As The Leading Open-Source Linux Distro For BMCs | Operating Systems | 2022-02-16 |
| The Less Than Ideal State Of AMD Open-Source Firmware Support In 2022 | AMD | 2022-02-05 |
| Fedora "DIGLIM" Feature Proposal Drawing Mixed Reactions | Fedora | 2022-01-02 |
| Dell BIOS/UEFI Under Attack From New Vulnerabilities - Use FWUPD For The Latest Updates | LVFS | 2021-06-24 |
| Debian Installer 11 "Bullseye" RC1 Released | Debian | 2021-04-23 |
| Multiple New Security Issues Hit GRUB Bootloader Around Secure Boot | Linux Security | 2021-03-02 |
| Fedora Developers Brainstorming Options For Better Memory Testing | Fedora | 2020-07-21 |
| Another Attack Vector Uncovered For Bypassing Linux Lockdown Via ACPI Tables | Linux Security | 2020-06-15 |
| Ubuntu 18.04's Heavily Patched Kernel Opens Door To Lockdown Bypass, Breaks Secure Boot | Ubuntu | 2020-06-14 |
| Android-x86 9.0-r1 Finally Released For Bringing Android 9.0 Pie To Intel/AMD Systems | Operating Systems | 2020-02-27 |
| There Is Finally Open-Source Accelerated NVIDIA Turing Graphics Support | Nouveau | 2020-01-15 |
| Debian's Excitement In The 2010s From Big Releases To Systemd Usage To Powering SteamOS | Operating Systems | 2019-12-27 |
| Linux 5.5 Begins Plumbing Secure Boot Infrastructure For POWER9 | Hardware | 2019-12-04 |
| Kernel Lockdown Feature Will Try To Land For Linux 5.4 | Linux Security | 2019-09-13 |
| The Mission Of Coreboot - Is It About Open-Source Or Appeasing Hardware Vendors? | Coreboot | 2019-09-08 |
| ACRN 1.2 Hypervisor Released With Kata Containers Support, Secure Boot Capability | Virtualization | 2019-08-30 |
| The Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Driver Gets A Batch Of Fixes For Linux 5.3 | Nouveau | 2019-07-19 |
| Debian 10.0 "Buster" Now Available - Powered By Linux 4.19, GNOME + Wayland | Debian | 2019-07-06 |
| GRUB 2.04 Bootloader Released With RISC-V Support, Native UEFI Secure Boot, Btrfs RAID | GNU | 2019-07-05 |
| Debian 10.0 "Buster" Release Images Are Up For Testing | Debian | 2019-07-01 |
| Debian 10.0 "Buster" Lining Up To Release In Early July | Debian | 2019-06-11 |
| FreeBSD Had A Very Busy Q1-2019 As It Approaches Its 26th Birthday | BSD | 2019-06-04 |
| Debian 10 Buster's Installer Reaches RC Phase - Finally Offers Secure Boot Support | Debian | 2019-04-15 |
| GRUB 2.04 Release Candidate Brings Globs Of New Features | GNU | 2019-04-09 |
| Measured Boot Support Is Heading To Coreboot | Coreboot | 2019-02-26 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" DRM Changes Begin Queuing Ahead Of Linux 5.1 | Nouveau | 2019-02-13 |
| GRUB 2.04 Is On The Way This Year Along With Other New Bootloader Features | GNU | 2019-02-07 |
| Debian Installer Buster Alpha 5 Has Initial UEFI Secure Boot Support | Debian | 2019-02-02 |
| Debian 10 "Buster" Working To Have UEFI SecureBoot In Good Shape | Debian | 2019-01-07 |
| GRUB Bootloader Picks Up A Verifier Framework For Secure Boot, TPM, PGP Verification | GNU | 2018-11-09 |
| Apple's New Hardware With The T2 Security Chip Will Currently Block Linux From Booting | Hardware | 2018-11-05 |
| OpenBMC Is Aiming For Its Major Debut In Early 2019 | Coreboot | 2018-10-05 |
| Yabits: A New UEFI Coreboot Payload Alternative To TianoCore & Closed-Source Blobs | Coreboot | 2018-10-04 |
| Intel Open-Sources New TPM2 Software Stack | Intel | 2018-08-31 |
| Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel R5 Now Officially Ready For x86_64 & AArch64 | Oracle | 2018-06-21 |
| Soon It Might Be Possible To Finally Have A Nice ARM-Powered Linux Laptop | Arm | 2018-06-14 |
| Matthew Garrett Elaborates More On Lockdown + Secure Boot Pairing | Linux Kernel | 2018-04-05 |
| Torvalds Expresses Concerns Over Current "Kernel Lockdown" Approach | Linux Kernel | 2018-04-03 |
| The Linux Kernel Prepares To Be Further Locked Down When Under UEFI Secure Boot | Linux Kernel | 2018-03-01 |
| Nouveau Updates Submitted For Linux 4.16, Bringing GP108 & Kepler Clock Gating | Nouveau | 2018-02-09 |
| GRUB 2.04 Should Be Released Later This Year | GNU | 2018-02-04 |
| The Most Popular Articles On Phoronix In 2017 | Phoronix | 2017-12-31 |
| Nouveau DRM Changes Being Worked On For Linux 4.16 | Nouveau | 2017-12-26 |
| Debian Had A Successful 2017 With The Release Of "Stretch" | Debian | 2017-12-19 |
| Linux File Systems for Windows: Use EXT4 / XFS / Btrfs On Windows | Linux Storage | 2017-12-08 |
| The Most Exciting Linux Kernel Stories Of 2017 | Linux Kernel | 2017-12-07 |
| Intel Planning To End Legacy BIOS Support By 2020 | Intel | 2017-11-18 |
| Oracle Linux 7 Update 4 Brings UEFI SecureBoot, USBGuard Added & Btrfs Supported | Oracle | 2017-09-09 |
| Ryzen, NVIDIA & Unity 8 Abandonment Topped H1'2017 | Phoronix | 2017-07-03 |
| Ubuntu 17.10 Enables PIE Across All Architectures, Improves Secure Boot | Ubuntu | 2017-06-16 |
| Ryzen, Linux 4.12 & Polaris Evolved Were Exciting This Month | Phoronix | 2017-05-31 |
| The New Features So Far For The Linux 4.12 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2017-05-07 |
| Early Patches For Kernel Lockdown Mode Set For Linux 4.12 | Linux Kernel | 2017-05-04 |
| Unity 8 Abandonment, Windows 10 vs. Linux Tests Dominated April | Phoronix | 2017-04-30 |
| CD/DVD Image Changes For The Upcoming Debian 9.0 Release | Debian | 2017-04-28 |
| Debian 9.0 "Stretch" Might Not Have UEFI Secure Boot Support | Debian | 2017-04-27 |
| The State Of Debian 9.0 Stretch | Debian | 2017-04-15 |
| Kernel Lockdown: Tightening Up Linux Kernel Access From User-Space | Linux Kernel | 2017-04-06 |
| DRM Updates Submitted For Linux 4.11, Torvalds Explodes Over Code Quality | Linux Kernel | 2017-02-23 |
| Linux 4.11 Adds EFI Memory Attributes Table Support | Linux Kernel | 2017-02-21 |
| Looking Ahead To The Linux 4.11 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2017-02-19 |
| Nouveau Changes Prepped For Linux 4.11 Kernel | Nouveau | 2017-02-17 |
| Nouveau Patches Begin Lining Up For Linux 4.11 Kernel | Nouveau | 2017-01-31 |
| DragonFlyBSD Installer Updated To Support UEFI System Setup | BSD | 2017-01-15 |
| It's Now Possible To Disable & Strip Down Intel's ME Blob | Intel | 2017-01-12 |
| Microsoft Continued With Many Linux/Open-Source Announcements In 2016 | Microsoft | 2016-12-28 |
| NVIDIA Posts Initial Signed PMU Firmware Support Patches - Currently For GM20B | Nouveau | 2016-11-21 |
| Kernel Lockdown Patches Published (LOCK_DOWN_KERNEL) | Linux Kernel | 2016-11-17 |
| NVIDIA Developer Posts Secure Boot Refactoring For Nouveau | Nouveau | 2016-10-11 |
| Linux 4.8, AMDGPU, RADV & Google's Fuchsia OS Dominated This Month | Phoronix | 2016-08-31 |
| August Has Been A Super Exciting Month So Far For Linux / Open-Source Users | Free Software | 2016-08-21 |
| Secure Boot Isn't So Secure After All: The Golden Key Is Out | Microsoft | 2016-08-11 |
| EFI Bootloader Control Driver, Core EFI Capsule Ready For Linux 4.7 | Hardware | 2016-05-16 |
| Many EFI Updates Prepped For Linux 4.7 Kernel | Hardware | 2016-04-25 |
| Developer Warns Of "Uncorrectable Freedom & Security Issues" For x86 | Linux Security | 2016-04-05 |
| GeForce GTX 900 Series Open-Source Support Is Ready For Linux 4.6 | Nouveau | 2016-03-14 |
| NVIDIA Sends Out Revised Secure Boot Patches For Nouveau | NVIDIA | 2016-02-24 |
| NVIDIA Publishes Nouveau Patches For Secure Boot, Unified Firmware Loading | NVIDIA | 2016-01-18 |
| Mathew Garrett On The State Of Boot Security | Hardware | 2016-01-01 |
| The Less-Powerful Intel Compute Stick With Ubuntu Will Soon Ship | Intel | 2015-07-02 |
| KVM In Linux 4.2 Adds Support For x86 Write Combining, SMM | Virtualization | 2015-06-24 |
