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Linux developers working on uniting Windows 8 Secure Boot fixes

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ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols 		Mail this story
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Thanks to Microsoft's Windows 8 UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) Secure Boot there was no easy way to boot Linux, or any other operating system, on Windows 8 PCs. Now, there are two ways, the recently released Linux Foundation (LF) UEFI secure boot system and Matthew Garrett's shim system to boot Linux on these PCs. Soon, there will be only one unified way.

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caitlyn ·
Hey, it lasted for all of four months, and by the time this percolates out to all the distros Microsoft may have had a distinct advantage for seven or eight months in terms or making it difficult or scary to load Linux on a Win8 box for people who are not terribly technically inclined. If this is the best Microsoft could do to lock in customers they really do have problems.

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