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Fedora, secure boot, and an insecure futureFedora, secure boot, and an insecure futurePosted Jun 5, 2012 23:41 UTC (Tue) by faramir (subscriber, #2327)In reply to: Fedora, secure boot, and an insecure future by neilbrown Parent article: Fedora, secure boot, and an insecure future
I wish Linux desktop users had ANY market power at all. (I'm assuming that it is desktop users that matter here. Server admins are quite capable of setting their BIOS appropriately.)
Picking some random source (statcounter.com) seems to show the number of "other" web browsing OSes out there to be less then 3%. Even if Linux was all of that "other", it would still be less then half the number of MacOS X users. Your "modest probability of sales" is never going to capture that entire 3% and would require the vendor to double the number of types of physical products that they stocked. I'm pretty sure that any MBA worth his salt would laugh at us if we suggested it.
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Fedora, secure boot, and an insecure future Posted Jun 14, 2012 13:51 UTC (Thu) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link]
Canonical mentioned recently that they know about something between 8-10 million computers being sold with Ubuntu pre-installed by OEMs. That's already more than the number of PCs sold with Mac OS X pre-installed, and I'm sure it's more than enough for MBAs not to laugh at it...
Fedora, secure boot, and an insecure future Posted Jun 14, 2012 13:52 UTC (Thu) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link]
Those numbers were for sales last year BTW.
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