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Matthew Garrett Makes Available Secure Bootloader For Linux Distros

Posted by timothy on Saturday December 1, 2012 @12:50AM 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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Re:Yay! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-01 04:25 · Score: 5, Insightful

You should never care if it is an AC.
It is the message that is important, not the messenger. Why, after 11 years of using this site, should I register an account? My words stay the same. All it would be good for is group validation through karma whoring. I'd rather be ignored out of irrational bias than lauded for conforming to groupthink.