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Will Secure Boot Cripple Linux Compatibility?
MojoMax writes "The advent of Windows 8 is drawing ever nearer and recently we have learned that ARM devices installed with Windows 8 will not be able to disable the UEFI secure boot feature that many of us are deeply concerned about. However, UEFI is still a very real danger to Linux and the freedom to use whichever OS you chose. Regardless of information for OEMs to enable customers to install their own keys, such as that published by the Linux Foundation, there are still very serious and as yet unresolved issues with using secure boot and Linux. These issues are best summarized quoting Matthew Garrett: 'Signing the kernel isn't enough. Signed Linux kernels must refuse to load any unsigned kernel modules. Virtualbox on Linux? Dead. Nvidia binary driver on Linux? Dead. All out of tree kernel modules? Utterly, utterly dead. Building an updated driver locally? Not going to happen. That's going to make some people fairly unhappy.'"
If you don't like their choices buy something else or do as I have suggested above.
If you don't like addressing me civilly. go fuck yourself or do as I will suggest below.
Go fuck yourself twice.
There's no reason why I should suck it up and accept what the manufacturer of the device wants. That's loser talk.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
The bonch / SharkLaser / Overly Critical Guy are shill accounts manipulated by the same organization to astroturf slashdot. They are used to post corporate stories and manipulate public discussion to a more corporate-friendly position, which is pro-Microsoft and anti-Google.
These accounts are employed to push so much PR crap into slashdot discussions that they even manage to paste the same script through different accounts, as shown in this post and this post.
They are also employed together in discussions in order to karmawhore, such as this case, and to deter unfavourable criticism. For a description check out this post.
So, mod these sockpuppet accounts accordingly.
Slashdot, fix your code or at least hire someone who is competent at it to do it for you.
OH, HORROR, MICROSOFT IS TRYING TO DESTROY ITS COMPETITORS LIKE EVERY SINGLE OTHER COMPANY IN EXISTENCE, INCLUDING GOOGLE!
Jesus Christ. You literally quoted that post sentence by sentence, making it one of the most obnoxious replies to parse ever. Just because you're still nerd raging over "Micro$oft" because they bundled IE twenty years ago doesn't mean your FREEEEEDOMM is going to get taken away just because some tablets will ship with Windows 8.
I find it absolutely hilarious how people are all about choice and competition when it comes to Android devices but are suddenly in opposition to other companies competing with Android with their own devices. You're just a neckbearded fanboy. You have sided with Android, and you don't like anything that competes with it.