On 13/06/12 06:47, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On 2012-06-12 22:18, Ricardo Chung wrote:
As far as it's tested, LiveCD are not impacted. Said so, you could be able to boot a LiveCD to play it Live Only. Not installing it. Though is possible it will change next months. Mmm... this doesn't make much sense, booting anything is dangerous, it could be a virus. This is what they are trying to protect, people booting unsecured things. Once a malware boot code in a CD boots it can do lots of damage to a computer.
I guess that I must be completely missing the point here about this subject. People have been booting a virus/malware-attracting system for decades - and people are still alive and the world has kept revolving[****]. People have been booting Linux systems for 2 decades and updating them, and installing new applications on them, and no Linux system has been taken down by a virus/malware - and the world has just kept on revolving in this period... So why, suddenly, is this UEFI-thing come to the forefront? Nobody knew about this UEFI-thing beforehand, and now, out of the blue, Microsoft comes out with it - and everybody is supposed to go into panic mode? Has someone been "asleep at the wheel", or am I missing the point about all this? [****] A multi-million dollar industry exists because of this. What is their reaction to this UEFI-thing considering that they will be losing $millions and laying off people? 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