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Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration

Linux users who have Secure Boot enabled on their systems knowingly or unknowingly rely on a ke [...]

Berrangé noted that older versions of fwupd were unable to solve all of the problems, " but recent releases have been enhanced to handle the updates that Linux users will need to see, which should mitigate the worst of the impact". LVFS creator and maintainer Richard Hughes agreed, noting that there were various ways that people's systems would be able to get updated Secure Boot functionality. Since older hardware is something that Linux and distributions explicitly support, while the other vendors have long since moved on to the latest shiny, it was clearly going to lead to some tension there.

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