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Windows 10 to make the Secure Boot alt-OS lock out a reality
http://arstechnica.com/information-t...out-a-reality/
Ascendency at its worst! My advise: Never ever purchase a computer with a pre-installed OS; Computer producers that have special relationships with companies are chiefly evil! -- 'Long live FREE source!' 'Long live OPEN source!' 'Misery to those who advocate otherwise!' 'And misery to self-proclaimed Net-cops!' |
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Windows 10 to make the Secure Boot alt-OS lock out a reality
On 03/21/2015 04:23 PM, Chuck wrote:
http://arstechnica.com/information-t...out-a-reality/ Ascendency at its worst! My advise: Never ever purchase a computer with a pre-installed OS; Computer producers that have special relationships with companies are chiefly evil! -- 'Long live FREE source!' 'Long live OPEN source!' 'Misery to those who advocate otherwise!' 'And misery to self-proclaimed Net-cops!' If this is the case, what are the implications to Live CD/USB and (Bart style) PE disks? Will we not be able to boot off of Live/PE to do maintenance on SOF (Son-of-Frankenstein, a.k.a. Windows 10)? Do I misunderstand how UEFI lock works? Will it only lock you out of the hard drive for booting purposes? And, if you can still boot off of Live, will the lock keep you out of doing maintenance on the hard drive? |
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Windows 10 to make the Secure Boot alt-OS lock out a reality
On 03/21/2015 04:23 PM, Chuck wrote:
http://arstechnica.com/information-t...out-a-reality/ Ascendency at its worst! My advise: Never ever purchase a computer with a pre-installed OS; Computer producers that have special relationships with companies are chiefly evil! -- 'Long live FREE source!' 'Long live OPEN source!' 'Misery to those who advocate otherwise!' 'And misery to self-proclaimed Net-cops!' Hi All, A Linux analyst (pjones) has chimed in here. He thinks there is no story he https://lwn.net/Articles/637605/ I really (mildly optimistically) think there's no story here. There's no other related policy changes in the HCL, and that's what determines what vendors implement and test on their platforms, because there's a lot of MS marketing money tied to doing so. [0] How would you write a CSM on ARM? What could "int 13h AX=EDDh" or any other BIOS call even mean? You'd have to write a whole new ABI for BIOS just to say it was deprecated. So, perhaps, we are all worrying about nothing here. -T |
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