After many months of painstaking effort, the problems caused by Microsoft’s Windows 8 “Secure Boot” technology are finally being solved for Linux users.

We’ve already seen major distribution updates such as Fedora 18 include technology to enable booting on Windows 8 Secure Boot hardware, but only last week—after considerable delay—did the Linux Foundation release its Linux Foundation Secure Boot System, a Microsoft-signed mini bootloader for making that possible across the board.

Now, the capability is quickly spreading, and Ubuntu 12.04 Long Term Support (LTS)—a popular choice among business users—is the latest distro release to gain Secure Boot support.

Multiple problems fixed

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