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Fedora, secure boot, and an insecure future

Fedora, secure boot, and an insecure future

Posted Jun 8, 2012 16:54 UTC (Fri) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)
In reply to: Fedora, secure boot, and an insecure future by ballombe
Parent article: Fedora, secure boot, and an insecure future

Hardware with the Win8 logo will be shipping with secure boot enabled by default, the MS keys loaded by default and must have the option to disable secure boot, they may also have the option to load their own keys. Fedora will be having their bootloader signed by MS because it's user-unfriendly to require a trip to the firmware to modify secure boot settings before booting an install CD. If you want to install custom software or older software (Win7 or whatever) you will have to fiddle with the firmware in any case.


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