[ltp] Any News Yet on the Upcoming Win 8 notebooks/ultrabooks with UEFI - Which Will Also Boot Linux?

[Donald B Altman]

Hi James,  Thanks for your input.  As I understand the problem, MS is 
planning to use "secure boot" with Win 8, which will lock UEFI to all 
other OSs except Win 8 UNLESS the vendor explicitly programs their UEFI 
to allow another OS on the machine.  There's been a lot of chatter about it.

See, for instance:
> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/yes-uefi-secure-boot-could-lock-out-linux-from-windows-8-pcs/14897


On 10/20/2011 03:59 PM, James Knott wrote:
> Donald B Altman wrote:
>> I apologize if this is somewhat off topic...
>>
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> My ThinkPad E520 has UEFI and I was able to install Linux on it.
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