Microsoft tries to block Linux off window 8 .

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If this wasn’t so sad, it would be funny. After Microsoft recently declared victory over Linux, it turns out that Microsoft appears is still trying to arrange it so that Linux won’t even boot on the next generation of PCs that come with Windows 8. Yeah, Linux isn’t on your enemy list anymore right Microsoft? Sure.

Source :http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/microsoft-tries-to-block-linux-off-windows-8-pcs/9572?alertspromo=&tag=nl.rSINGLE

Source:http://mjg59.livejournal.com/138973.html
 
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Except they're not, it's just more anti-MS BS spread by linux fanatics. Secure boot is an option which you will be able to disable with a simple setting:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/22/protecting-the-pre-os-environment-with-uefi.aspx

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This is to prevent people formatting their Win8 tablet comprised of OEM hardware and installing some other OS. It is embarrassing for companies to see their hardware running some OS it was never designed for.

It's not a concern for normal PCs.

It has little to do with Microsoft. Microsoft's role is simply to tag their OS with security certificates. Which the UEFI BIOS can then verify before it boots the OS. It comes down to the motherboard/OEM manufacturer to store in the firmware a list of trusted security certificates (i.e. operating systems it will allow to boot).
 
If this wasn’t so sad, it would be funny. After Microsoft recently declared victory over Linux, it turns out that Microsoft appears is still trying to arrange it so that Linux won’t even boot on the next generation of PCs that come with Windows 8. Yeah, Linux isn’t on your enemy list anymore right Microsoft? Sure.

Source :http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/microsoft-tries-to-block-linux-off-windows-8-pcs/9572?alertspromo=&tag=nl.rSINGLE

Source:http://mjg59.livejournal.com/138973.html
You might want to look at the facts before running around screaming "won't someone think of the children"... :D
 
Except they're not, it's just more anti-MS BS spread by linux fanatics. Secure boot is an option which you will be able to disable with a simple setting:

Thats right. The typical tinfoil hat wearing Linux zombies are making a big deal over nothing.

Secure boot is UEFI feature, part of the UEFI spec. NOTHING to do with Microsoft. Windows 8 simply makes use of this feature. And you can turn it off in the motherboard UEFI settings menu. Atleast if the motherboard manufacturer allows it.

Even arstechnica was saying the same a zdnet, about how MS are so evil and trying to block Linux. It's a great example of how stupid the press are.
 
He's really embarrassed himself with that zdnet article. It's basically little more than an uninformed rant. He manages to sum up his own writing in the first line -

If this wasn’t so sad, it would be funny.

And then he tops it off with his follow-up post where he contradicts a large portion of his original -

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-sour...on-windows-8-pcs/9589?tag=mantle_skin;content

I really don't see how this will significantly effect the Linux community. If I was buying/building a computer I intended to run Linux on, I would be doing quite a bit of component research anyway (the computer I'm using right now was built with Linux compatibility in mind). This is simply just one more thing to check.
 
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