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On 22/09/11 09:34, Gordon Henderson wrote:
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Roland Tarver wrote:http://url.drogon.net/0g "Summary: Some are concerned that Microsoft’s coming Windows 8 secure-boot technologies and policies could result in users being unable to dual-boot Linux alongside Windows 8. Microsoft officials aren’t commenting on whether the worries are unfounded or grounded." More dirty tricks?Indeed .. However this was tried 10 years ago under the banner of "trusted computing" or something... And I did have a PC that had a BIOS locked to the installed Win. It would not boot Linux. The PC was supplied by HP as part of a laptop backup system running some variant of WinXP... (It outlived its usefullness as a backup device so I thought I'd try to make it useful again - failled, but didn't try too hard) I suspect socketted BIOSes will make a comeback and people will simply sell re-flashing services (assuming you can't still boot a manufacturer CD to allow reflashing) Gordon
I think people who circumvent these things are a lot more sophisticated these days and will find some way around this. Isn't the UEFI thing somewhat similar to apples boot ? that had to have a way to boot linux along with OSx, or am I thinking of something else ?
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