Windows 8: UEFI Secure Boot System for Linux – 221 days old

[Alakazam]

"The Linux Foundation today announced that they have found a way to make Linux and other open source distributions work with Secure Boot.

In a nutshell, the Linux Foundation will obtain a Microsoft Key and sign a small pre-bootloader which will, in turn, chain load (without any form of signature check) a predesignated boot loader which will, in turn, boot Linux (or any other operating system)."




Article is at Linux Foundation

Thanks to GHacks for the info.

[Dark Angel]

So, in a nutshell, MS will outright OWN the desktop environment and we Linux users will be dependent on them to release said key at their discretion at every, most likely frequent, new revision of the UEFI implementation with every new hardware release.