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UEFI Secure Boot and Linux: Where Things Stand

Posted by Unknown on from the don't-boot-that-gnu dept.

itwbennett writes "Assuming that Microsoft doesn't choose to implement Secure Boot in the ways that the Linux Foundation says would work with Linux, there 'will be no easy way to run Linux on Windows 8 PCs,' writes Steven Vaughan-Nichols. Instead, we're faced with three different, highly imperfect approaches: Approach #1: Create UEFI Secure Boot keys for your particular distribution, like Canonical is doing with Ubuntu. Approach #2: work with Microsoft's key signing service to create a Windows 8 system compatible UEFI secure boot key, like Red Hat is doing with Fedora." itwbennet finishes with: "Approach #3: Use open hardware with open source software, an approach favored by ZaReason CEO Cathy Malmrose." When you can't even use a GPLv3 licensed bootloader to boot your system, you might have a problem. Why is everyone so quick to accept the corpse of TCPA in new clothes?

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  1. He's right you know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Linux is completely unusable to the average computer user, so I dont think there is much loss here. Suffering from the same fragmentation as Android and lack of support for so many software companies. No one wants to find stupid workaround back-ass-wards ways to just get they're damn computer working.

  2. Re:Approach #4 by bhcompy · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This is a problem because Microsoft insists on a unified platform. The reality is that SecureBoot is only a forced "feature" of Windows RT(that is, Windows 8 on ARM devices). It's also a problem because linux circlejerkists on /. are retards who don't know how to read, as well.