On 06/06/12 18:21, C wrote:
Swapnil has written an interesting blog post about the whole RedHat and UEFI thing that has been floating in the last day or so...
http://www.muktware.com/3699/secure-boot-uefi-fedora-red-hat-99-ubuntu-micro...
What are we as openSUSE going to do here? Do we pony up the $99 for the key registration fee? (my vote would be yes) Do we ignore it? Has anyone thought about this yet?
F****** Microsoft again! Is this "blog", or whatever, is now telling me that I have been booting my computer INSECURELY for the past 30 years? The problem here is UEFI. So, get rid of the parasite. There was a reason for why I never used Intel in my computers - but I didn't really know why I never did. It was always a "gut feeling". Well I think I now know why I had this feeling- /quote The original EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) specification was developed by Intel. Some of its practices and data formats mirror ones from Windows. /unquote Intel, Microsoft, Red Hat.... 'Nuff said. BC -- Using openSUSE 12.1 x86_64 KDE 4.8.3 and kernel 3.4.1 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