Until I can afford it, It's theoretical.  Hoping to hear in a week if
I got a major real job, then it'll not only move from
theoretical--it'll move to NECESSARY.

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Konstantin Olchanski
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:46:11AM -0600, Connie Sieh wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Is all this still theoretical? I have not seen any recent laptops,
> but on recent desktop mobos (from ASUS), indeed, in the BIOS setup,
> I see the button to enable "secure boot". This button is "off" by default,
> Linux boots just fine.
>
> So is there an issue bigger than having to go into the BIOS setup
> to turn off "secure boot"?
>
> In other news, when people ask me "which Linux laptop to buy?", I tell
> them to buy a Mac. For all practical purposes MacOS acts as a funny Linux,
> the main difference being that all the hardware and software actually
> does works as advertised. (That does cost you a few extra $$$, of course).
>
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> Konstantin Olchanski
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