Re: [ubuntu-uk] heads up - Secure Boot Problems for Linux Users Are Here Already

2012-06-02 Thread Nigel Verity
Hi All If anybody can get a key from Verisign for $99 that makes a mockery of having secure boot in the first place. We can take it as read that there are long term plans by Microsoft to tighten up the secure boot spec in the future in their favour. To my mind, this first pass is just to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] heads up - Secure Boot Problems for Linux Users Are Here Already

2012-06-02 Thread Andres Muniz
- Mensaje original - On 01/06/12 13:58, Matt Wheeler wrote: On 1 June 2012 08:02, alan caecl...@candt.waitrose.comĀ  wrote: Time has passed. The problem has now matured, and Fedora have accepted defeat and decided to pay to be allowed to use Microsoft restricted hardware.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] heads up - Secure Boot Problems for Linux Users Are Here Already

2012-06-02 Thread Alan Bell
On 02/06/12 14:26, Andres Muniz wrote: I'm getting a bit confused now. http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html Everybody seems Does the fedora payment of $99 to verisign mean that the computer that could or could not have windows preinstalled will alow to install fedora and windows but

[ubuntu-uk] UEFI

2012-06-02 Thread paul sutton
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFIBooting Just found the above with regard to UEFI AND LInux Paul -- -- http://drupal.zleap.net http://www.ubuntu.com skype : psutton111 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-sutton/36/595/911 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UEFI

2012-06-02 Thread alan c
On 02/06/12 20:23, paul sutton wrote: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFIBooting Just found the above with regard to UEFI AND LInux I would like to think that the very detailed information would help mean that in future, an Ubuntu live USB or CD will work in all future PCs, and that If I