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Preparing the kernel for UEFI secure boot

Preparing the kernel for UEFI secure boot

Posted Sep 7, 2012 18:24 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: Preparing the kernel for UEFI secure boot by mjg59
Parent article: Preparing the kernel for UEFI secure boot

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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