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ryanlol on Oct 30, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Replacing exploit-ridden firmware with a Linux ker...

Linux is still certainly more "bug-ridden" than UEFI, because of size alone.

azernik on Oct 31, 2017 [–]

From the abstract:

> UEFI is a proprietary and closed-source operating system, with a codebase almost as large as the Linux kernel...

And this kernel build is a trimmed-down one, removing functionality that isn't necessary to initialize the hardware and boot the full kernel.

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