Linux Foundation Releases Document On UEFI Secure Boot

mvar writes "The Linux Foundation today released technical guidance to PC makers on how to implement secure UEFI without locking Linux or other free software off of new Windows 8 machines. The guidance included a subtle tisk-tisk at Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky for suggesting that PC owners won't want to mess with control of their hardware and would happily concede it to operating system makers and hardware manufacturers." Canonical and Red Hat have also published a white paper (PDF) suggesting that all OEMs "allow secure boot to be easily disabled and enabled through a firmware configuration interface," among other things.

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Re:I'd say that's "mostly" true.

[Bert64]

Most users would be just as stuck if faced with a windows install which failed to recognise their wifi adapter...
Stock out of the box windows often fails to recognise hardware, xp was especially bad because it got so dated but 7 is going that way too now...

Users don't install their computers, they buy them preinstalled... There's no reason why a machine preinstalled with linux wouldn't have everything already configured and working, and come with a recovery disc to return it to the factory state... Same as currently happens with windows.