UEFI Secure Boot and Linux: Where Things Stand

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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approach #4

[Cyko_01]

Modify ntldr to boot to grub automatically and and remove all unnecessary windows components

Re:Wait wait...

[epyT-R]

I will. it's an awesome operating system... since I spend 95% of my time in the start menu I'm glad they made it full screen and interactive.. it's like a video game!

Re:Secure Boot won't catch on

[Arancaytar]

It once again goes to show that the Microsoft slogan is "Where do you want to be taken today"

"Guess where we'll be taking you today."