On 5/16/08, Nicholas Negroponte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Open Firmware V2, the free and open source BIOS, is now capable of > running Linux, Microsoft Windows XP and other operating systems, and was > developed by Firmworks with support from OLPC. This will enable dual > boot of OLPC XO laptops with Microsoft Windows XP in addition to the > existing Fedora-based system and will become the standard > BIOS/bootloader for all XO systems when completed. With this "free > BIOS," the XO-1 continues to be the most open laptop hardware currently > available.
I am not firmware-savvy but: what prevent windows from booting with V1 Firmware and how do they resolved it? (that is Ivan mentioned in his blog article?) What I would like to understand is security risk the change will give users of our linux stack. Don't we really need to be worry about that? /Korakurider _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
