Linus Torvalds: Windows 8 Secure Boot Doesn’t Destroy Linux

Last updated on September 8th, 2018

Many Linux lovers are worried that Microsoft’s new Secure Boot technology will make it more difficult to get the open source operating system onto machines that originally ship with Windows 8. But Linux founder Linus Torvalds believes that the complaints are overblown. The bigger issue, he says, is that Secure Boot can be hacked.