On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 2:32 PM, 0 <[email protected]> wrote: > As far as desktop are concerned, I am sure mobo > manufacturers will be sensible enough to sign the linux bootloaders >
This will prevent us from compiling kernel ourselves. > or > provide an option to boot even if it is not signed. > This introduces another option that a newbie will have to change. Which, of course, will be named *disable secure boot*. (OMG-Ubuntu rightly summarised newbie's reaction thus: "You want me to disable a _security feature_ so I can boot into this Linux thing?") > Worst comes to worst, it shouldn't be too difficult to patch the UEFI > firmware or replace it with an open source firmware. > Ah, another barrier to Newbie. This seems to be an idea to increase the height of Windows-Linux jump barrier, without appearing to be fully blocking it. -- அகிலன் (Akilan R) [ blog.akilan.in ] *I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.* --Jean Rostand _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
