On 13/06/12 16:13, Per Jessen wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote:
On 13/06/12 05:48, C wrote:
The typical scenario is... someone buys a computer.. wants to try out this Linux thing they've heard of.. .pops a LiveUSB/CD/DVD in and boots it up.. UEFI pops up with whatever dire warning the manufacturer put in... "You are attempting to boot an unauthorized operating system, system halted" or some such scary message. How many will twig and say "oh right.. press Del during boot.. find and disable UEFI and boot again"... not many. The problem is that if that person wants to later boot the Windows 8
On 2012-06-12 21:36, C wrote: they bought, they can't until they re-enable uefi secure booting. So... even more reason we need to step up and support this UEFI
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Carlos E. R.
wrote: thing. We can argue about the semantics of it until the end of time.. is it right or wrong... and in a perfect world we'd say "no we won't go along with this initiative" but.. it's here already.. so... lets just get on with it and pay the fee, get the key... set it up so we can boot and be able to say we support Secure Boot :-)
C My question is:
What does the EU think about all of this?
Does the EU see this as yet another attempt by Microsoft to monopolise the market? Except for a few discussions/blogs, I have been unable to find much/anything on that topic (EU & Secureboot), but at a glance it does seem like something the EU ought to take a closer look at. Especially the key management and the potential exclusion of non-MS or non-corporate software.
Thanks, Per. So, as I suspected, the whole thing may have even caught the EU twiddling its thumbs..... And I wonder what its reaction will be when it finally gets to really know about this UEFI-thingie. But then, the EU is about to implode anyway so who really cares, eh? :-( However, there is still the rest of the world, especially the Eastern part of the world. BC -- Using openSUSE 12.1 x86_64 KDE 4.8.3 and kernel 3.4.2 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org