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

[James Knott]

Yes, I've read about it before.  If this does happen so that it locks 
out Linux and other, then perhaps it's time to fire up some more 
anti-trust charges.

Donald B Altman wrote:
> 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...
>>>
> <SNIP>
>>
>> My ThinkPad E520 has UEFI and I was able to install Linux on it.
>>
>