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  1. Re:Now if they will sell them without MS Windows by Duckman5 · · Score: 5, Informative · on Ultralight Convertibles Approaching Desktop Performance

    You need to go into the BIOS and disable secure boot.

    You don't even need to do that if you pick your linux version properly. I just finished installing Sabayon/Linux on my Lenovo U430p laptop after I decided I was going to reformat it anyway because of the recent Superfish fiasco. We've had a working secure boot shim for over 2 years now. No need to disable secure boot. Red Hat and Ubuntu both support it as well if you're looking for something a little more mainstream. At worst you may need to register a key with the BIOS (I did for Sabayon), but I'm not sure you even need to do that with Red Hat since their shim is actually signed by MS.

  2. Re:Irrational Hate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Debian Technical Committee Votes For Systemd Over Upstart

    This is why you keep a liveCD/liveUSB around, preferably of the same distro. You always have a bootable system that way, and if you really screw things up, you can chroot into your installed distro and make whatever required changes.

    The process is more or less as described here; none of the commands appear to be distro-specific.

  3. Re:G'Day by Runaway1956 · · Score: 1 · on MATE To Make It Into Debian Repositories

    Not Minty at all - more Sabayon.

    https://www.sabayon.org/article/well-hello-mate

    http://www.cookthink.com/reference/2466/What_is_sabayon

  4. Re:What kind of encryption did the FBI break? by Runaway1956 · · Score: 1 · on Judge Orders Child Porn Suspect To Decrypt His Hard Drives

    "You forgot to sudo. Go directly to jail!"

    Terminal window was already su - I don't use sudo very often. Some say it's a bad habit, but some distros don't even have sudo.

    By default, sudo is disabled in Sabayon. http://wiki.sabayon.org/index.php?title=HOWTO:_Enable_sudo

  5. Re:Serious Question by tomstockmail · · Score: 2 · on KDE 4.8 RC 1 Now Available

    Sabayon has a KDE version that's very good on updates and default configuration. Sabayon is based on Gentoo but doesn't do all of the compiling. Yes, that negates the advantage Gentoo had but you still get the rolling release and you can still use portage if needed.

  6. Re:really? by Runaway1956 · · Score: 1 · on Windows XP PCs Breed Rootkit Infections

    I've looked at Bodhi in the past. Looks nice - but I demand 64 bit operating systems on my 64 bit hardware. For that reason, I've only looked at Bodhi. A similar offering, in 64 bit, is available from Sabayon: http://forum.sabayon.org/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=24632

    Notice that Sabayon is available with or without any of the major desktop environments. If Bodhi appeals to you, then you'll want that E17 image. Sabayon IS somewhat different than the "average" Linux, in that it is based on Gentoo - but it's not so different that you're likely to be lost.

    I'm actually running that distro on metal right now, after a disk failure borked my 3 year old Ubuntu installation.