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Matthew Garrett Makes Available Secure Bootloader For Linux Distros

Posted by timothy on from the working-with-the-work-around dept.

TrueSatan writes "Matthew Garrett, formerly of Red Hat, is providing a shim bootloader that will allow installation/booting of secure boot enabled computers. The shim is designed to chain boot GRUB (Grand Universal Bootloader) without the need for a distribution to obtain a key from Microsoft. Garrett asks that further contacts regarding the shim be made to him and not to Red Hat as he no longer works there and they may not have knowledge of the product."

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  1. Re:Yay! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    violating some sort of propitiatory BS

    Yeah I really hate all that appeasing the gods BS, too.

  2. Re:Clarification by MysteriousPreacher · · Score: 5, Funny

    Micro$oft and Windoze? Have you recently emerged from 15 years in stasis? To bring you up to date...

    Madonna is still shit and now looks like Iggy Pop.
    9/11
    Year of Linux on the desktop is imminent
    The president's black
    The Rolling Stones aren't dead
    We sent cool shit to Mars
    World didn't end but will end again later this month

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    -- Using the preview button since 2005
  3. Re:Yay! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cutting out the middle man is ALWAYS the right thing to do.

    Next time you're sick, I'll call the undertaker.