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Secure Boot Coming To SuSE Linux Servers

Posted by Unknown on from the hold-the-key dept.

darthcamaro writes "UEFI Secure Boot is a problem that only desktop users need to worry about right? Well kinda/sorta/maybe not. SeSE today is releasing SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 which will include for the first time — support for UEFI Secure Boot. Apparently SUSE sees market demand for Secure Boot on servers too. Quoting Matthias Eckermann, Senior Product Manager at SUSE: 'Our market analysis shows that UEFI Secure Boot is a UEFI extension that does not only cover desktops, but might very well also be deployed and even required on server systems going forward.'"

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  1. Re:SecureBoot has no place as implemented by 0123456 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Secure boot does nothing to prevent the end user from being in control, and it does not require anything from Microsoft. If your vendor does not allow you to install your own keys, get a better vendor.

    So first you say that Windows Boot doesn't prevent the end user from being in control, then you admit that it puts the vendor in control. Vendor lock-in is the whole point of Windows Boot.

  2. Re:SecureBoot has no place as implemented by Rockoon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Unless the hardware manufacturer won't let you.

    Isn't this argument essentially fear, doubt, and uncertainty?

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  3. Re:SecureBoot is incomplete by Nerdfest · · Score: 3, Insightful

    what you are booting is signed by someone you trust

    Or Microsoft.

  4. Re:SecureBoot is incomplete by KiloByte · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It complicates use of non-microsoft OSes

    And that's the whole reason SecureBoot is getting pushed onto manufacturers.

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