Responding to a query from iTWire about what OpenBSD, widely recognised as the most security-conscious UNIX, would be doing to cope with “secure” boot, De Raadt said: “We have no plans. I don’t know what we’ll do. We’ll watch the disaster and hope that someone with enough power sees sense.”

via OpenBSD’s de Raadt slams Red Hat, Canonical over ‘secure’ boot.

Red Hat’s method of ensuring that PCs certified for Windows 8 can boot GNU/Linux, announced by its community distribution Fedora, is to sign up to the Microsoft developer program and obtain a key which will be used to sign a “shim” bootloader.