[SGVLUG] Linus' NSFW Comments on Secure Boot

[James McDuffie]

Here is a follow up article:
http://www.zdnet.com/torvalds-clarifies-linuxs-windows-8-secure-boot-position-7000011918/

tldr:
"""So, there you have it. Until you pry Torvald's cold dead fingers from
Linux, Microsoft Secure Boot keys and signed binary  modules are not
going to be in the Linux kernel.  

You will, however, be able to use these to install and boot Linux on
Windows 8 PCs; but that will be done in userspace, not Linux's heart.
And, if you really want to load Microsoft-signed drivers, such as
hypothetical, future binary-only graphics drivers from Nvidia or
ATI/AMD, you'll be able to do that too as well. It just won't be
incorporated to automatically happen in Linux's core functionality."""

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013, at 11:04 AM, James McDuffie wrote:
> For those of you at SCALE for Garrett's talk on Saturday, he mentioned
> some comments that Linus made he could not repeat given the kid
> friendliness of the convention. I believe this article  presents those
> comments in context:
> http://tx0.org/5db
> 
> NOTE: I shortened the URL because the article title in the URL might be
> NSFW for some people.
>