On 5 June 2012 09:54, Lukáš Jirkovský <l.jirkovsky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 4 June 2012 22:27, Sudaraka Wijesinghe <sudaraka.wijesinghe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> If this is a poll, I vote "Arch should require Secure Boot to be disabled" >> >> I choose a distro like Arch because it doesn't have a financial motive >> and will not give into market pressures such as this. >> If we want keep hardware vendors from forcing Secure Boot on us, we have >> to send the message out that we don't want it. Paying a "small" price of >> M$99 is not the way. >> >> However as free software users, we will have to endure some hard time in >> the coming days when getting new hardware. >> >> Just my two cents. >> >> Sudaraka. >> > > Assuming the Arch Users are competent, I'd rather let them add an Arch > Linux key to UEFI without disabling Secure Boot. This way Arch would > work with Secure Boot with added security of no one messing with > bootloader in a harmful way. > > Lukas Just wondering - why does it have to be Microsoft's Key to used? Could there be an Arch Linux provided key that would allow a Secure Boot? Thanks calvin
