Re: Want to dual boot Mint and Win 8 - UEFI questions
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 5:22 pm
If you buy motherboards and assemble your own system, it is highly unlikely that secure boot will be included?/required, as that would require picking the OS to use (extending a Microsoft monopoly to hardware systems/chipsets)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/23 ... i_lock_in/
Microsoft + oems' might have made PCs cheaper, but constrining their use at those cheaper price points is not nice!
--we've had a good run of low priced PCs'
Linux solutions..
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-med ... pen-source
http://hothardware.com/News/Linux-Found ... -Solution/
--the key wil be available ($100.00 approx..)
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/l ... dora/11187
I actually have little idea why anyone running a home based PC (desktop or even notebook/netbook) would need a secure boot
--I mean we can already encrypt hard drives or directoriers/folders: what's the real(not philosophical) advantages of it (uefi..)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/23 ... i_lock_in/
- If the draft for UEFI is adopted without modification, then systems with secure boot enabled simply will not run a generic copy of Linux. Disabling the feature would allow unsigned code to run. However Garrett argues that since "firmware vendors and OEMs are interested in providing only the minimum of firmware functionality required for their market" this may not be possible, a concern shared by Anderson.
What both Microsoft and critics of UEFI seemingly agree on is that unless secure boot can be disabled then Linux can't be run on Windows 8 PCs.
Microsoft + oems' might have made PCs cheaper, but constrining their use at those cheaper price points is not nice!
--we've had a good run of low priced PCs'
Linux solutions..
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-med ... pen-source
http://hothardware.com/News/Linux-Found ... -Solution/
--the key wil be available ($100.00 approx..)
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/l ... dora/11187
I actually have little idea why anyone running a home based PC (desktop or even notebook/netbook) would need a secure boot
--I mean we can already encrypt hard drives or directoriers/folders: what's the real(not philosophical) advantages of it (uefi..)