On Sun, 24 May 2015, Paul E Condon wrote: > > [BIG snip] > Two comments: > > 1) I saw a few days ago, an NewEgg.com advert. for a specialized > HD/SSD combo. from Western Digital. It is a drop-in replacement for a > SATA HD that combines in the same SATA physical outline, a 120GB SSD > and a 1TB backing store on HD. This for just over $100 on Memorial > Day sale. They must have figured out how to deal with UEFI. If they > can figure it out, surely open/libre people can copy the WD approach.
I've seen similar hybrid drives on laptops as the default drives. Don't know how they are configured, but I'm assuming that the SSD holds the OS and apps for fast response times, and the spinning drive holds all data and/or backup and recovery partitions. > 2) Who among us would be willing to download and install software > from the NSA that says it will protect you from Microsoft? Who doubts > that NSA has the technology to break Microsoft's UEFI? A lot of people already use NSA software: SELinux. I'm not one. For servers, it's great for security; but for a user system, it's a waste of CPU cycles. I always turned it off when I ran Fedora. It was impossible to uninstall or seemed so. UEFI isn't the problem. Most all Linux distros support and can use it. It's Secure Boot which requires a Microsoft key that's the problem. If you can't turn it off, you can't install another OS. And if you want to dual or multi-boot with Windows 8.x, and presumably W10, a royal PIA to set up, if you can get it to work at all. Read that Red Hat, CentOS and SUSE purchased Secure Boot keys from MS for their OSes to make them compatible. B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150524203140.53f92...@debian7.boseck208.net
