On Tuesday 11 September 2012 21:37:10 Per Jessen wrote:
Andreas Jaeger wrote:
On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 12:31:57 Will Stephenson wrote:
AJ: why is this so important that you would sacrifice the time based release?
This is IMO a critical hardware feature.
I expect that all new hardware in the lifetime of 12.3 will have UEFI Secure Boot enabled and we need to solve that. Releasing - like 12.2 - with only the option to go into the BIOS and disable it - is IMO the wrong approach.
I agree UEFI support is important, but it is really a marketing feature. The number of new openSUSE 12.3 installations on new hardware with a requirement to coexist with Windows8 is going to be somewhat limited, but the awareness of the issue is much bigger, so having UEFI support would be quite a coup, marketing-wise.
Remember that 12.3 will not just be relevant the day it is released but at least the 8 months after that and up to another year after that... By that time, lots of hardware might be UEFI-only.