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Ubuntu Lays Plans For Getting Past UEFI SecureBoot

Posted by timothy on from the first-you-fake-an-injury dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Canonical has laid out their plans for handling UEFI SecureBoot on Ubuntu Linux. Similar to Red Hat paying Microsoft to get past UEFI restrictions, Canonical does have a private UEFI key. Beyond that they will also be switching from GRUB to the more liberal efilinux bootloader, and only require bootloader binaries be signed — and they want to setup their own signing infrastructure separate from Microsoft."

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  1. Re:UEFI SecureBoot is a catastrophy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can someone help me understand what's the difference?

    Well let's see...

    "My 24" Core 2 Duo iMac has EFI Boot" vs "UEFI SecureBoot is crippling the computer"

    hmm...

    "My 24" Core 2 Duo iMac has EFI Boot" vs "UEFI SecureBoot is crippling the computer"

    ehhh...

    "My 24" Core 2 Duo iMac has EFI Boot" vs "UEFI SECURE Boot is crippling the computer"

    humm... nope can't see a damned thing different.