On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:27 AM, zxq9 <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/27/2013 04:20 AM, Paul Robert Marino wrote: >> >> I have an X120e as well and simply changing the hard drive doesn't fix >> the eufi issue. >> the first answer to this string is correct with two cavorts RedHat got >> two signed certs one fro RHEL and the other for Fedora. apparently the >> process was a nightmare but they will work with secure boot. for that >> reason I run fedora as my primary os on my laptop and if i have to do >> any Scientific Linux testing I run it in a VM >> (and yes an AMD fusion chip can runs a single VM surprisingly well).. > > > We supply our customers with Linux and dual-boot systems, and recently have > run headlong into the UEFI madness.
> ... (SNIPPED) ... > There is a silver lining. The board makers themselves are out to sell boards > and laptops and tablets and can be reasoned with. My company is an extremely > small player in the hardware field but we've had positive response from > vendors when inquiring about having our own keys included on boards > alongside Microsoft's when doing bulk orders. We haven't had to go that > route yet so I'm unsure how much of a pain that would actually be to manage > (doesn't appear much more difficult than managing repository keys though, > for example), but this leaves the door open for even tiny computing > companies and larger IT departments to arrange for their own "secure" boot > keys to be pre-installed by the board manufacturers and not violate > Microsoft's requirements, even on ARM. That said, since we don't do showroom > marketing anyway neither we nor our suppliers have a need to put little > "Windows8 Ready" stickers on anything they ship to us anyway. > ... (SNIPPED) ... Doesn't this lower the eventual resale value of the laptop? Doesn't it restrict the laptop to run only what either MS wants or what you installed? I buy refurbished laptops and install Fedora, but I might want to try *BSD or Ubuntu or something else in the future. Doesn't the "silver lining" restrict that with these UEFI laptops? -- Dale Dellutri
