[wplug] UEFI secure boot could prevent New Linux installations

[George Larson]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>wrote:

> I think the concern is that some cheap motherboard vendor will do the
> bare minimum to support running Windows 8 instead of implementing the
> full UEFI spec, and subsequently not actually support turning off
> secure boot.  I think the current history of how cheap MB vendors
> implement various specifications in their BIOS is evidence that this
> will happen.
>
>
This article [ Open-sourcers suggest Linux secure boot block workarounds ]
reminded me about this conversation...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/31/linux_uefi_secure_boot/