SUSE Slowly Shows UEFI Secure Boot Plan

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday August 8, 2012 @10:37AM from the at-a-stately-and-majestic-pace dept.

itwbennett writes "One blog post at a time, SUSE is revealing its plan for getting SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) to boot on machines with UEFI Secure Boot. The short version: 'For now, it seems, SLES will implement an approach similar to that used by Fedora,' writes Brian Proffitt. '[Director of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Olaf] Kirch's first blog entry on Tuesday merely introduced the problem of UEFI Secure Boot. Today's blog only specified the use of the shim bootloader.' Just dying to know what's next? Tune in to the SUSE blog."

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Re:what is the point again? by gomiam · 2012-08-08 11:31 · Score: 5, Interesting

Theory is closer to practice in theory than in practice. The facts are clear: UEFI lets someone else decide what you can or can not run in your computer.
Think you can disable it? Think again: who is going to care about your being able to disable it when, eventually, Microsoft requires it to be always on on Intel versions of Windows just like they have done on ARM?