FreeBSD Team Begins Work On Booting On UEFI-Enabled Systems 248
An anonymous reader writes "The FreeBSD project has begun the process of making it possible for the operating system to run alongside Windows 8 on a computer which has secure boot enabled." Linux distros have taken to using a minimal loader, signed by Microsoft, to enable booting on UEFI systems with secure boot. "Indeed we will likely take the Linux shim loader, put our own key in it, and then ask Microsoft to sign it," says developer Marshall McKusick in the linked IT Wire article. "Since Microsoft will have already vetted the shim loader code, we hope that there will be little trouble getting them to sign our version for us."
Re:Well I'll be... (Score:4, Funny)
Won what battle? There is no battle. They just managed to get their key into the hardware manufacturers and happen to conveniently sell access to that. Nothing stops anyone else from doing the same.