[Mageia-dev] [council] ping Media query: secure boot support

Tue Jan 29 12:09:00 CET 2013

> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Guillaume Rousse
+> <guillomovitch at gmail.com> wrote:
+>> Le 29/01/2013 10:37, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
+>>
+>>> As for now Microsoft requires all W8 certified systems with secure
+>>> boot to allow secure boot to be switched off by user/sysadmin. One
+>>> reason why I do not understand the reason why all these people (Garret
+>>> et all) are stumbling all over themselves to solve a problem which is
+>>> not even sure to ever come by.
+>>
+>> I guess that's because secure boot may be considered useful, if you're
+>> in
+>> control of it, of course. And because something working out of the box
+>> is
+>> probably better when targetting non-experts.
+>
+> Yes I think the main problem is that for probably 10 years it had
+> became easy for someone non technical to test/install linux, now they
+> would need to change setup in the bios and would probably give up (or
+> be scared).
+>
+
+no 100% sure, but some time ago, i remember someone looking into this with
+motherboard/PC manufacturers and it seemed like most manufacturers weren't
+even planning on having secure boot / let alone enable it by default.
+
+I suspect that most PC manufacturers are putting the win8 sticker on it
+regardless of it using secure boot. and i think that most win8
+preinstalled PCs won't even be able to use secure boot.
+
+in other words... is this REALLY gonna be an issue? (except for ARM
+platforms)?
+
+i'm not 100% sure on this, but i'm not really that worried atm...
+
+

[Mageia-dev] [council] *ping* Media query: secure boot support

[Mageia-dev] [council] ping Media query: secure boot support