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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. Do not disagree with Garrett by JonJ · · Score: 0, Troll

    Or else he'll post ad-hominem personal attacks about you on his blog. He is the sole reason I migrated away from Fedora to Ubuntu/Debian.

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  2. Re:Yay! by recoiledsnake · · Score: 0, Troll

    I agree with you, but still want people like you to get an account because of abuse by ACs. Many a time I would get replies from ACs with foul and trolling language. If smart ACs got an account, I could change my settings to ignore ACs.

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