My apologies to Sasi sir (Shri.V. Sasi Kumar, Free Software Foundation of India) for cross posting his mail to SMC here. I do believe that this issue will become prominent very soon - as the latest windows 8 may compulsorily require UEFI + Secure Boot in place of the age old BIOS. Newer systems may all have only UEFI. The Secure Boot technology in present form is mostly harmless for advanced users who want to install their own OSs line Gnu/Linux (either with some extra effort, or by disabling secure boot). Novice may find the extra steps associated with secure boot a little intimidating. But a danger exists that the market monopolies may coax the system manufacturers (OEMs) to take away options to disable secure boot or add your own keys. If that happens, it will become impossible to install other OSs without rooting the motherboard. I am leaving this here for further thoughts.
Regards, Gokul Das -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
