Thanks to Microsoft, the Linux Foundation's program for booting Linux easily on Windows 8 PCs protected with Secure Boot is still stuck in neutral.

Many Linux lovers are worried that Microsoft's new Secure Boot technology will make it more difficult to get the open source operating system onto machines that originally ship with Windows 8.

With Windows 8 PCs with UEFI secure boot locks on their way, Linux developers are working on addressing its problems.

A signing key supporting Secure Boot on Linux will expire soon.

Freeing the way for independent Linux distributions to be installed on Windows 8 computers, the Linux Foundation releases software that will allow Linux to work with computers running the UEFI ...

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday for August 2024 includes a fix for a security vulnerability in the Grub2 boot loader, which is used by many Linux operating systems. Tracked ...

Microsoft provides a signing service Linux distros can take advantage of, allowing them to boot on most Secure Boot-enabled PCs with no further configuration.

A signing key that many Linux distributions use to support Secure Boot is about to expire Sytems that fail to recognize the new key might fail to boot Linux securely ...