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Will FNAL or CERN get some certification to allow them to take advantage
of the secure boot option?  One of the weakest points of many systems is
the ability to boot unauthorized media.  This option could work for us
but I gather it needs work to get certified (and maybe it's too late
given there are products being sold now with it?).  Does the TUV effort
generalize to derived ones like SL?

On 02/26/2013 11:46 AM, Connie Sieh wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2013, Scott_Gates wrote:
> 
>> OK, If I needed a desktop, I'd just roll my own. Probably starting
>> with=20=
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>> something bare-bones from TigerDirect.
>>
>> I'm thinking of buying a new laptop, rather than just recycling old
>> ones,=
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>> like I have been.=20
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>> I have HEARD there are issues with trying to install on computers
>> with=20=
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>> Windows8 already installed--the only source I have of "CHEAP"
>> laptops.=20=
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> 
> If a i386/x86_64 laptop is certified for the "Windows 8 logo" then it
> has to have "secure boot" enabled in the bios(uefi) by default as
> required by Microsoft.  Secure boot requires a 'signed by microsoft'
> program to boot. But the bios(uefi) is REQUIRED to have a method to turn
> off the "secure boot" option and thus not require a microsoft signed os.
> 
> Note that ARM based laptop with "Windows 8 logo" are required to enable
> "secure boot" but are required to not allow that it be changed.  Again
> as required by microsoft.
> 
>> Basically a Wal-mart or Best-buy boxes that I can get in the $250-$400
>> ra=
>> nge.
>>
>> Does anybody have experience with this?  Yeah, I know I'll be Voiding
>> the=
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>> Warranty--but, I need a laptop for real work--not socializing or net=20
>> flicking.  You know what I mean.
>>
> 
> -Connie Sieh
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