[PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting: Expiring MS Certificates and Secure Boot with Loren Lang

[Russell Senior]

Who: Loren Lang
What: Expiring MS Certificates and Secure Boot
Where: 1930 SW 4th Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97201-5304, Room 86-01
When: Thursday, May 7, 2026 at 7 PM
Why: The pursuit of technology freedom

Summary:

Secure Boot and how to deal with the upcoming certificate updates that 
are going to be required when the old Microsoft CA expires in June. Many 
systems will need this update.

"I am hoping to go into the details of both installing your own 
certificates if you don't want to use the Microsoft certificates and how 
to deal with the Microsoft CA when you need to such as fulling the IT 
requirements for your employeer when you want to run Linux as your main 
operating system. I've had to deal with that to get my primary work 
laptop dual-boot enabled and with working Nvidia drivers that needed to 
be signed with a MOK."


        Bio:

"While I got to play with my first Sun Workstation running Solaris back 
in 1996, but it was getting Red Hat Linux where my interest really took 
off. Since then, I have moved to better options and have spent some time 
contributing to various distributions and even a little time with 
FreeBSD ports. My primary job revolves around embedded engineering of 
some sort. I am currently working at Intel and am one of the very few 
people on the floor with an IT-approved Linux desktop for my primary 
workstation."

See also: https://calagator.org/events/1250482558


-- 
Russell Senior
PLUG Volunteer
russell at pdxlinux.org