[Ubuntu-be] Win8 will block dual-boot?

[wouter Vandenneucker]

EPFSUG is already talking about shouting it out to some MEP's in order to make sure the rights of the users are guaranteed..I guess this isn't the last we heard from it. (And that's a good thing!)

Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:16:48 +0200
From: vincent op mangelschots.org
To: ubuntu-be op lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-be] Win8 will block dual-boot?

Microsoft does require that the hardware ships with UEFI secure boot enabled but it also states that it will support the unsecured boot process. If so then it's up to the hardware vendors to make it optional. 

http://tweakers.net/nieuws/76961/microsoft-secure-boot-blokkeert-andere-besturingssystemen-niet.html (dutch)


On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Pieter Vande Wyngaerde <pietervandewyngaerde op gmail.com> wrote:

UEFI secure booting (part 2)  via planet.debian.net:



very good good article @ http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/5850.html

(Part 1 here: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/5552.html)



from the article:

These are the facts:



Windows 8 certification requires that hardware ship with UEFI secure

boot enabled.

Windows 8 certification does not require that the user be able to

disable UEFI secure boot, and we've already been informed by hardware

vendors that some hardware will not have this option.

Windows 8 certification does not require that the system ship with any

keys other than Microsoft's.

A system that ships with UEFI secure boot enabled and only includes

Microsoft's signing keys will only securely boot Microsoft operating

systems.



...



The truth is that Microsoft's move removes control from the end user

and places it in the hands of Microsoft and the hardware vendors. The

truth is that it makes it more difficult to run anything other than

Windows. The truth is that UEFI secure boot is a valuable and

worthwhile feature that Microsoft are misusing to gain tighter control

over the market. And the truth is that Microsoft haven't even

attempted to argue otherwise.







On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Jurgen Gaeremyn

<jurgen.gaeremyn op pandora.be> wrote:

> Have a read here:

>

> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/will-windows-8-block-users-from-dual-booting-linux-microsoft-wont-say/10772


>

> Grtz,

> Jurgen.

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