On 15/06/12 00:09, Malcolm wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 23:33:45 +1000 Basil Chupin
wrote: I read - at least I am sure that that is what I read - that one would be able to disable this UEFI-thingie if one doesn't want to use it. Meaning that if one was to only use a Linux system then one wouldn't need this crap. Is this right or wrong?
Hi Correct, only for new systems/hardware that users wish to run Windows 8 as well as other OSes.
Usage of correct terminology here seems to be of vital importance considering all the kerffuffle being written so far by people in this thread :-) . Are you saying that the problem only affects those who want to DUAL BOOT (or run anything-Windows in a VM environment) with anything-Windows when using any Linux distro as their main operating system? or are you saying that this crap will apply to any new mobos in the coming months which not only may want to use Windows 8 but to any other operating system of whatever flavour including a Linux system which they may want to install?
On this DELL E5510 my concern is that it appears I can't disable..... and it's only a concern, I only run linux on this machine...
Which is what is confusing. If you only run Linux then why would you want to disable it? - especially as you are not using one of these yet-to-come UEFI enabled gizmos? (Actually, my mobo has this UEFI on it but I haven't looked at it yet.) I am still confused by the fact that there has not been much stomping of feet and gnashing of teeth about this matter and that people at Fedora have made decisions about this while openSUSE has only this week suddenly woken up that something has to be done about this (if anything that is); not to mention that FOSS has been silent about it (at least I haven't seen any articles re their thinking) and the EU has not been stirring the pot about it. Is all this just a storm in a tea cup or a serious thing? 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