On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 21:07 -0700, Visakh wrote: > My apologies to Sasi sir (Shri.V. Sasi Kumar, Free Software Foundation > of India) for cross posting his mail to SMC here. I do believe that > this issue will become prominent very soon - as the latest windows 8 > may compulsorily require UEFI + Secure Boot in place of the age old > BIOS. Newer systems may all have only UEFI. The Secure Boot technology > in present form is mostly harmless for advanced users who want to > install their own OSs line Gnu/Linux (either with some extra effort, > or by disabling secure boot). Novice may find the extra steps > associated with secure boot a little intimidating. But a danger exists > that the market monopolies may coax the system manufacturers (OEMs) to > take away options to disable secure boot or add your own keys. If that > happens, it will become impossible to install other OSs without > rooting the motherboard. I am leaving this here for further thoughts.
Dear Visakh, Thank you for posting it to smc. That is where I should have originally posted it, and, in fact, that is what I thought I had done. Some stupid oversight it was to post it to lug. Anyway, there is no need to apologise. You only corrected a mistake that I made. Thanks again and regards, Sasi -- V. Sasi Kumar Free Software Foundation of India http://swatantryam.blogspot.com -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
