[sf-lug] Microsoft trying to shut out dual-booting machines with UEFI...

[Dan Murphy]

Incentive enough for me to NOT upgrade, if this proves to be the case.

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Bobbie Sellers
<bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com> wrote:
> Hi LUGs,
> "Matthew Garrett, a Red Hat <http://www.redhat.com> engineer, gets the
> credit for spotting Microsoft’s latest anti-Linux move. In a blog posting,
> Garrett explains that Windows 8 logo guidelines require that systems have
> Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) <http://www.uefi.org/home/>
> secure boot enabled. This, in turn, would block Linux, or any other
> operating system, from booting on it."
>
> <http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/microsoft-tries-to-block-linux-off-windows-8-pcs/9572>
>
> and at
>
> <http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/will-windows-8-block-users-from-dual-booting-linux-microsoft-wont-say/10772?tag=content;siu-container>
>
> To get more on UEFI a
> <http://www.uefi.org/home/>
>
> later
> Bobbie Sellers
>
>
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