Happy 25th birthday Linux!

2016-08-24 Thread Andrew Pam via luv-main
"On August 25, 1991, an obscure student in Finland named Linus Benedict Torvalds posted a message to the comp.os.minix Usenet newsgroup saying that he was working on a free operating system as a project to learn about the x86 architecture. He cannot possibly have known that he was launching a

Re: Hardware for kids

2016-08-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan via luv-main
On 24/08/2016 4:04 PM, Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:09:26AM +1000, Paul van den Bergen wrote: >> the answer to the question "is it possible to install Linux" is always >> yes... > > i wouldn't be so sure about that. > > The "SecureBoot" spec for tablets,

Re: Hardware for kids

2016-08-24 Thread Paul van den Bergen via luv-main
sad but potentially true - but then, I can't see oracle, google, vmware, cisco or anyone else using unix variants to agree to that On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Craig Sanders via luv-main < luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:09:26AM +1000, Paul van den Bergen

Re: Hardware for kids

2016-08-24 Thread Craig Sanders via luv-main
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:09:26AM +1000, Paul van den Bergen wrote: > the answer to the question "is it possible to install Linux" is always > yes... i wouldn't be so sure about that. The "SecureBoot" spec for tablets, laptops etc with ARM CPUs doesn't allow installation of custom keys, and