Secure Boot: Red Hat and Canonical present their alternatives

Posted by linuxaria on Jun 29, 2012 10:44 AM EDT
Linuxaria.com; By Paul Castagnino
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Secure Boot is a type of mechanism that verifies that the code executed is digitally signed. Thus the computer can only boot an operating system that has a bootloader properly signed. This is a requirement that Microsoft asked to put on computers the badge “Windows 8 Certified”. This request by Microsoft has split the waters among the major Linux distributions , find out why.

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