On Weds (Nov 7) at 6:30p, the desktop SIG is meeting at MIT. We are
holding a vote for the best distro in order to bring some lightness to
the election season and spark some discussion.
We don't have anyone to make the case for SuSE or RedHat/Fedora as a
desktop OS. Any aficionados out there
Rich Pieri wrote:
Jerry Feldman wrote:
The bottom line here is that UEFI will prevent some Linux users from
installing Linux, especially in the near future.
No, it will not. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either lying or has
bought into the anti-Microsoft propaganda. There is no truth
On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 13:00:56 -0400
Tom Metro tmetro+...@gmail.com wrote:
I haven't seen any recent articles that have made this claim. What I
The Linux Foundation article that sparked this thread repeatedly made
precisely this claim.
have seen expressed is a concern that non-technical users
On Nov 2, 2012, at 1:09 PM, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
If I wanted to write a script to obtain distro flavor (Ubuntu, CentOS,
RH, Mint, BSD, Solaris, etc), major/minor version (5.3, 10.6, etc),
hardware brand/make/model, at least for starters, what would be the
best way to attack it?
My approach
On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 03:14:32PM -0500, Laura Conrad wrote:
Rich == Rich Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com writes:
Rich I'll bet more of you have Secure Boot capable computers than you
Rich realize.
So how do we tell?
A better question might be, Does it matter? Even if your
On 11/04/2012 06:28 PM, Rich Pieri wrote:
On Sun, 4 Nov 2012 17:34:40 -0500
John Abreau abre...@gmail.com wrote:
Saying Let's test it is the exact opposite of taking it at face
value.
Agreed, but that was not what was being said. That's in large part due
to a lack of hardware available to
Derek == Derek Martin inva...@pizzashack.org writes:
Derek On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 03:14:32PM -0500, Laura Conrad wrote:
Rich == Rich Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com writes:
Rich I'll bet more of you have Secure Boot capable computers than you
Rich realize.
So
On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:47:59 -0500
Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
The latest information I have from a software professional who is on
this list and who does work with UEFI is that non-server Windows 8
systems will not boot into Windows 8 if UEFI is disabled. Server or
Interesting. Work
On 11/05/2012 05:25 PM, Laura Conrad wrote:
Derek == Derek Martin inva...@pizzashack.org writes:
Derek On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 03:14:32PM -0500, Laura Conrad wrote:
Rich == Rich Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com writes:
Rich I'll bet more of you have Secure Boot capable
On 11/05/2012 07:59 PM, Rich Pieri wrote:
On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:47:59 -0500
Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
The latest information I have from a software professional who is on
this list and who does work with UEFI is that non-server Windows 8
systems will not boot into Windows 8 if UEFI
On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 21:04:29 -0500
Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
I think it only affects the preinstalled consumer version of Windows
8.
I want to understand why. What is it about the pre-installed editions
that makes them behave differently from the Enterprise edition and
Server 2012? My
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