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Preparing the kernel for UEFI secure bootPreparing the kernel for UEFI secure bootPosted Sep 7, 2012 13:35 UTC (Fri) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)In reply to: Preparing the kernel for UEFI secure boot by wookey Parent article: Preparing the kernel for UEFI secure boot
The certification requirements that must be met depend on whether a hardware vendor deems their platform to be client or server, and there's a corresponding set of limitations on the supported versions of Windows. You could run a server on client editions of Windows, but you'd be missing any of the management tools that would make it a reasonable or pleasurable experience.
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Preparing the kernel for UEFI secure boot Posted Sep 7, 2012 18:24 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
If hardware vendors could designate their hardware as 'server' or 'client' and have this enforced, Linux would never have gotten started.
*nix manufacturers would have loved to be able to protect their expensive systems by preventing the cheap systems from running "server" OS versions
Microsoft also would have loved to be able to lock in the 'server' vs 'client' status of hardware
the losers of this are the users and owners of the systems
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