Microsoft tries to block Linux off Windows 8 PCs

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 06:00:28PM -0400, Colin McGregor wrote:
> The central point in all of this is that ANY OS that is not properly
> signed in Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) will not be
> allowed to boot. In other words, NO Linux will run (unless the
> hardware vendor has included a signature for YOUR Linux distro.),
> ditto old versions of Microsoft Windows, ditto other free OSs such as
> FreeBSD. The reason the hardware vendors would add UEFI is because
> they will not be able to use the Windows 8 logo without UEFI. Bottom
> line, this is Microsoft under the cover of "security" attacking Linux,
> other free OSs and old versions of Windows.

Not quite.  Only a boot loader signed by the person with an accepted
signing key for the box will work.  That could be you, or it could not
be, depending on how the box was configured from the factory.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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