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  • Fedora Linux May Drop BIOS Support

    Fedora Linux May Drop BIOS Support

    Fedora Linux developers may soon end support for BIOS, in favor of UEFI.

    Many Linux distributions support a combination of BIOS and EUFI, the successor to the aging firmware. UEFI offers a number features and advantages over BIOS. Intel created the predecessor to UEFI, EFI, but struggled to get manufacturers to adopt it until Apple switched to Intel. After that, other manufacturers began adopting the newer technology at a faster rate.

    According to an official announcement, Fedora developers plan on dropping BIOS support in Fedora 37.

    UEFI is defined by a versioned standard that can be tested and certified against. By contrast, every legacy BIOS is unique. Legacy BIOS is widely considered deprecated (Intel, AMD, Microsoft, Apple) and on its way out. As it ages, maintainability has decreased, and the status quo of maintaining both stacks in perpetuity is not viable for those currently doing that work.

    It is inevitable that legacy BIOS will be removed in a future release. To ease this transition as best we can, there will be a period (of at least one Fedora release) where it will be possible to boot using the legacy BIOS codepaths, but new installations will not be possible. While it would be easier for us to cut support off today, our hope is that this compromise position will make for a smoother transition. Additional support with issues during the transition would be appreciated.

  • Steve Jobs Movie In The Works?

    Steve Jobs Movie In The Works?

    When you look at the huge success of the last major motion picture that focused on a tech personalty (the Oscar-nominated The Social Network) and couple that with the massive popularity of Apple’s Steve Jobs and his recent death (I’m sure you’ve heard the word “visionary” a couple of times in the last week) – this news makes perfect sense.

    Deadline reports that Sony Pictures is making a “hefty deal” to grab the rights to the upcoming book Steve Jobs, the official biography of the late Apple CEO written by Walter Isaacson.

    The deal is rumored to be $1 million against $3 million, and producer Mark Gordon is attached to the project.

    The upcoming book upon which the Jobs film will be based, Steve Jobs, is based on dozens of interviews conducted by author Walter Isaacson over the course of two years. Isaacson also interviewed “hundreds of family members, friends, adversaries, competitors and colleagues.”

    In August, we learned that Steve Jobs’ resignation as CEO of Apple would play prominently in the biography. Back then, publisher Simon & Schuster said that Isaacon was still in contact with Jobs regularly and was still working on the last chapter of the book.

    I’m sure that the recent death of Jobs will be a last minute addition to the story.

    The bio was originally slated for release on November 21st of this year, but after Jobs’ death the release was moved up to October 24th. The finished product is reported to be 656 pages. Here’s the “trailer” for the book –

    Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple’s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.

    Are you interested in the upcoming Steve Jobs bio? If it is made into a movie, do you think it will make for compelling cinema? Let us know what you think.