On 27/05/15 05:21 PM, deloptes wrote:
Patrick Bartek wrote:
Researching a laptop purchase (within the next 6 months or so) to replace
my aging Desktop (1 to 8.5 years depending on which parts). Going to
abandoned the Big Box forever. Need to be very portable in the next year
or two. Two questions to begin:
1. Many laptops seem to only be able to turn off Secure Boot through the
OS, Windows 8.x, or so I've researched. However, I've read some makes
(Asus, Lenovo, Dell and HP) can do it directly through "BIOS" without
needing to boot Windows? True? Any others?
I recently replaced my old notebook Dell D520 for Dell E5440 ( 8GB RAM Intel
i5 cpu).
Everything is working great. Later models like E7*** use the DisplayLink
technology for docking station and do not work with Linux at all.
Secure Boot and all other options can be (de)activated/configured in the
BIOS GUI.
2. How UEFI compatible is Debian Wheezy? What I'm running on the Desktop.
Or is Jessie the better choice. Or something else entirely? Except
Ubuntu variants (Hate it!). I don't want to run in Legacy mode for future
compatibility. I won't be installing a desktop, just a window manager.
Probably Openbox.
I did not test UEFI, but should be supported and working.
Other option I considered was HP ... I was looking for <1000€
replacement/solution, but somehow I liked Dell over HP.
regards
I just want to add that my Jessie 8.0 is fully UEFI-compatible and boots
UEFI with zero issues. So did the netinstaller. But I don't remember
whether I've ever seen Wheezy installed for UEFI boot.
Deb
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