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

[Russell Senior]

Tonight!

On 5/4/26 04:24, Russell Senior wrote:
> 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
>
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