Ubuntu 17.10 Enables PIE Across All Architectures, Improves Secure Boot

Written by Michael Larabel in Ubuntu on 16 June 2017 at 06:22 AM EDT. 13 Comments
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Plenty of changes are taking place for Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" beyond just transitioning from Unity to GNOME.

The Ubuntu Foundations team has sent out their weekly newsletter that details a lot of the activities happening right now for the Ubuntu 17.10 cycle, some of which include:

- PIE (Position Independent Executables) are now enabled across all architectures by default. PIE, of course, being a security benefit. Fedora had been using PIE by default since Fedora 23 while it's great to see Ubuntu 17.10 will use PIE everywhere.

- Improved Secure Boot is being worked on, including better chainloading for booting Windows from GRUB. There are also some Secure Boot fixes pending.

- Python 3.6 has been added to artful-proposed with the transition in progress to this latest version of Py3.

More details via this mailing list post.
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