[plug] Win 8 Secure Boot - Can Linux be installed OK?

[Leon Wright]

If you want a good laugh and have some time to kill, there are videos made
by the MS developers working on UEFI and Secure boot. Man they suck down
the Kool Aid internally.

Leon

--
DRM 'manages access' in the same way that jail 'manages freedom.'

# cat /dev/mem | strings | grep -i cats
Damn, my RAM is full of cats... MEOW!!


On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Rusty Ramser <rusty_ramser at hotmail.com>wrote:

> Here's the URL for the PLUG talk by Jeremy Kerr:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35D0_feZnK8
> Or if you want to have some entertainment on the way to the correct link,
> it's the fourth search returned from this.  :)
> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=plug+uefi+secure+boot
>
> Also, here's a link to one of the more useful articles I've read about
> Windows8, Secure Boot, and Linux recently:
>
> http://www.howtogeek.com/149254/if-i-buy-a-computer-with-windows-8-and-secure-boot-can-i-still-install-linux/
> (I don't necessarily buy all of the propositions that the author puts
> forth in the article, but his factual information about the way Secure Boot
> and OSes work is informative.)
>
> Cheers.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: plug [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf Of euan at dekock.net
> Sent: Friday, 28 June 2013 10:00
> To: PLUG List
> Cc: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Win 8 Secure Boot - Can Linux be installed OK?
>
> I'd recommend you also take a look at the PLUG YouTube video of the talk
> given by Jeremy Kerr from Ubuntu, he provides a good technical overview of
> UEFI and Ubuntu.
>
> Sorry I don't have the URL to hand...
>
> Regards,
>
> Euan de Kock
> President - Perth Linux User Group (PLUG)
>
> On 28/06/13 9:29 Leon Wright wrote:
> Frank,
>
> I've not come across a Win 8 machine, but ubuntu 13.04 talks about it:
>
> http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI
>
> Regards,
>
> Leon
>
>
> --
> DRM 'manages access' in the same way that jail 'manages freedom.'
>
> # cat /dev/mem | strings | grep -i cats
> Damn, my RAM is full of cats... MEOW!!
>
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Frank Preston <chieftiff at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> Hi Perth Linux Guru's,
> I have recently bought a Win 8 notebook PC and want to install Linux on it
> so that I can have the choice of using Windows or Linux as the OS.  I
> understand that this is not very straight forward as Win has a security set
> - up which needs to be turned off and my research on the net has not been
> conclusive.  I have not used linux yet but would like to. Can you pse
> advise on this subject?
> Kind Rgds,
> Fred
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