I think this is kind of a non-story. There are plenty of systems with UEFI BIOS' now. They run Windows and Linux.
The problem with UEFI is that computer manufacturers (ie Dell or HP or Lenovo) ~could~ lock down the UEFI BIOS so it could only run the operating system it shipped with (Windows.) Microsoft hasn't proposed that manufacturers do that, so far as I know, and I've seen no evidence that they have or even would do such a thing. I think this is much ado about nothing. UEFI actually offers some useful improvements over traditional BIOS, including the ability to boot off a drive larger than 2 TB (a limitation of current BIOS.) Chris On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Russ Crawford <[email protected]>wrote: > Is UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) an obstacle to Linux on the > next generation hardware or is the discussion just unfounded paranoia? > > http://www.itworld.com/**operating-systems/206399/** > microsoft-red-hat-spar-over-**secure-boot-loading-tech?** > source=ITWNLE_nlt_linux_2011-**09-27<http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/206399/microsoft-red-hat-spar-over-secure-boot-loading-tech?source=ITWNLE_nlt_linux_2011-09-27> > -- > Russ Crawford > 615/506-4070 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <nlug-talk%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/nlug-talk?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
