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by checktheorder 2499 days ago
>the messy parts of the UEFI ecosystem

The jokes practically write themselves.

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Indeed. BIOS isn't perfect but it's small and simple and provides enough to boot an OS, whereas UEFI looks more like an attempt to create another OS to run before the main one. It's a great example of design-by-committee and second-system-syndrome.

Linus' rants on this topic are always worth a read: https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/efi.html

See also Mathew Garrett's rant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2aq5M3Q76U
That was actually quite informative, thanks for the link.
I'm looking forward to the "UEFI: The Good Parts" O'Reilly book.
s,book,leaflet,
Just a front and back cover and one page:

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Reminds me of the emacs man page in plan 9: http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/emacs
"Do you have anything light?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxqjsyfbcd4