The gummiboot fork is now called goofibootm, which is a nice touch. Solus can boot and install on UEFI systems Technically, it’s not really a fork, since the project is basically dead upstream, but we’ll go along with it since it’s a little too complicated and annoyingly bureaucratic to talk about it.
Now the Solus OS developers need to take into consideration that booting on UEFI systems is important and needed to be taken care of.įortunately, they don’t have to try to work from scratch, and they have forked gummiboot. It was presented as a security feature, and, in theory, it should work, but it’s difficult to integrate into Linux OSes. Until the world moves to something better and more open than UEFI (not happening anytime soon), the Linux world will have to find a way to coexist with this intrusion. UEFI is definitely one of the major issues that still need to be addressed and all Linux developers usually ran into it when they are looking to build a distro. The Solus OS people are now working on a gummiboot fork, which is acting as a UEFI boot loader. Booting operating systems on UEFI powered machines is just another problem that needs to be taken care of by Linux developers.
