On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 05:33:18AM +0200, Edward Bartolo wrote:
> Struggling with vendors that cater mostly for MS Windows users who
> don't really care about Secure Boot being disabled or not, is not the
> way that leads to an available solution. Such vendors are far too
> powerful to bow to the p
On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 05:49:11PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:
> Le 12/06/2016 17:08, Simon Hobson a écrit :
> >Hendrik Boom wrote:
> >
> >>How *do* we deal with secure boot? I am terrified of buying a new
> >>machine because I'm afraid I won't get to install anything on it
> >>wxcept for an OS fr
Le 12/06/2016 21:56, Simon Hobson a écrit :
Didier Kryn wrote:
The dealer will just be instructed to not sell it to people who claim they will
do anything else than using the pre-installed Windows.
Eventually yes.
But it will make their management aware of us for them to issue the instructio
On Sun, 12 Jun 2016 12:21:14 +0100
KatolaZ wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 06:35:11AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> [cut]
>
> >
> > There's a real question here for us, and for Linux in general.
> >
> > How *do* we deal with secure boot? I am terrified of buying a new
> > machine because
Didier Kryn wrote:
> The dealer will just be instructed to not sell it to people who claim they
> will do anything else than using the pre-installed Windows.
Eventually yes.
But it will make their management aware of us for them to issue the instruction.
But bear in mind that a lot of the "sal
Le 12/06/2016 17:08, Simon Hobson a écrit :
Hendrik Boom wrote:
How *do* we deal with secure boot? I am terrified of buying a new
machine because I'm afraid I won't get to install anything on it
wxcept for an OS from one of the big companies that have
sweetheart deals with Microsoft.
Well (
On Sun, 12 Jun 2016 12:43:55 +, Stephanie wrote in message
:
> In most cases right now, we have either the option to disable secure
> boot, or there is a version of GRUB that is signed, therefore
> permitting booting into other operating systems. For right now,
> investigate before buying to
Hendrik Boom wrote:
> How *do* we deal with secure boot? I am terrified of buying a new
> machine because I'm afraid I won't get to install anything on it
> wxcept for an OS from one of the big companies that have
> sweetheart deals with Microsoft.
Well (under UK law at least, other EU coun
In most cases right now, we have either the option to disable secure boot,
or there is a version of GRUB that is signed, therefore permitting booting
into other operating systems. For right now, investigate before buying to
make sure you have the option to boot your operating system of choice.
At
On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 12:21:14PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 06:35:11AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > How *do* we deal with secure boot? I am terrified of buying a new
> > machine because I'm afraid I won't get to install anything on it
> > wxcept for an OS from one of th
On 12/06/16 12:21, KatolaZ wrote:
On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 06:35:11AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
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There's a real question here for us, and for Linux in general.
How *do* we deal with secure boot? I am terrified of buying a new
machine because I'm afraid I won't get to install anything o
On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 06:35:11AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
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> There's a real question here for us, and for Linux in general.
>
> How *do* we deal with secure boot? I am terrified of buying a new
> machine because I'm afraid I won't get to install anything on it
> wxcept for an OS
> Nobody yet knows how many "Windows 10 compliant" manufacturers will
> eliminate the off-switch for Secure Boot. Could be 90%, for all we know.
> If we don't support secure boot hardware, we're telling people not to
> use Linux on commodity off the shelf hardware. Pay double for System76.
> Won't
On Wed, 3 Jun 2015 10:58:15 -0400
Gregory Boyce wrote:
> 2) Don't support booting on secure boot systems. This means users are
> out of luck if they have secure boot hardware unless they're able to
> disable that feature.
Nobody yet knows how many "Windows 10 compliant" manufacturers will
elim
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 08:37:22PM +1200, Daniel Reurich wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like a straw poll on whether we should include non-free firmware
>> in our installers by default.
>
> While we're at it, what do we do about the so-called secure b
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