Microsoft dragging its feet on Linux Secure Boot fix
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Good article but very un-setteling; IMO-
This is why I haven't installed Fedora on my laptop and I'm dissapointed that I can't- The whole UEFI thing is hard to understand and hard to understand (for me) how to get around it but this is just how I perceive it- |
I can only repeat that again: Please educate yourself about UEFI and Secure Boot. UEFI is not the same as Secure Boot, there is nothing wrong with UEFI at all.
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Thanks TobiSGD!
I downloaded the PDF from the Linux Foundation and started reading it. http://www.linuxfoundation.org/publi...open-platforms |
There's a surprise, Microsoft using extortion tactics to block competition. Who'd have thought it?
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it might be unintentional ,but i do not think that any one did not "see this coming"
http://blog.hansenpartnership.com/ad...-uefi-signing/ http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/1...loader-delayed now the big question is in the coming months/years will this be repeated ? ( looking into my "Christal ball" i see a blurry and foggy "yes" ) |
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http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/1...ndows-and-rhel As for Secure boot I have posted comments here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ix-4175438264/ |
I know this is a serious issue for the Linux community, but in this part of the world, the retailers have been spooked into selling off current Win7 machines *real* cheap.
M$oft is pushing Win8 real hard. So I'm looking to get some current laptops cheap and multi-boot to my hearts content for the next few years at least. Fuck the lot of them. |
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To me it says that there is something wrong with that exact Lenovo machine, not that there is something wrong with UEFI. |
I personally am not inclined toward conspiracy theories. :) Remember that all of these technologies are very much release 1.0 and I do suspect that they will turn out to be mostly snake-oil in practice. We shall see, but I detect the design-work of a crypto neophyte in the whole UEFI and Secure (sic...) Boot concepts.
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There is now the ability to use Secure Boot WITHOUT any dealing with the devil ... I mean M$:
http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/20303.html Quote:
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