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.

But if they prevent unsigned code from running, they also prevent anything
pre windows 8 from running.

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Len Sorensen
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