Some Linux distributions offer keyed kernels. Red Hat and SUSE Enterprise Linux I believe. That does not mean any Linux kernel can use secure boot though. I have not heard that UEFI was made by any mandate of the US government either. EFI was made by a consortium of corporations, including Intel, and some other big names, then extended by Microsoft into UEFI.
Whatever the motives were the end result has been greater difficulty in getting Linux to run on machines that have UEFI. Not running Windows at all UEFI does me absolutely no good whatsoever. The next time I am shopping around for a new system I will be looking for non-UEFI alternatives for myself too. I probably won't run x86 architecture at all, but will go with something ARM based. In time I can see ARM being the dominant platform for running Linux on.
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Here is another with some plain good old plenty of plain talk information.
loosely from what memory recalls as I have been following this but not lately,
is that Linux finally came up with the Secure Key route. The way toattack this
task of dual boot Linux and Windows 8 is to go to the Windows side of the aisle.
Simply, and beyond a lot of misinformation and disinformation and said to say
from the linux side is that NO monopoly was created by Microsoft on computers
with the secure boot Windows 8. They have been up once in the 1980s for that.
They are NOT up for that now at this late date and would have been if they were
guilty â believe it as mad as the Linux side became. So all it is to set up
things is simply entering a secure key yourself in Windows 8 to be able to run
Linux dual boot. You have to set up Windows to install Linux and NOT the other
way around.
LINK
If I Buy a Computer with Windows 8 and Secure Boot Can I Still Install
Linux?
As well I remember the article I was reading that actually the USA
Government required Windows to produce an anti-rootkit/bootkit lock out
technology and was the pressure to create Windows 8. I could try to find that
link buried somewhere â so this was not some NEW Micro$oft game to mess with the
public and other OSs as Linux. They were pressured by the American Government to
do so. There is also the on by default for the new machines.
gerald philly pa usa
Sent: Monday, September 9, 2013 5:29 PM
Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Windows 8 and Linux
install
Today's
Distrowatch.com Weekly question has some info on this
topic.
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20130909#qa
Joan in
Reno
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