20 questions about Windows Vista

[Prescott Oelke]

I was under the impression that BitLocker was just a filesystem
encryption setup. I dont think that it precludes you from dual booting
Linux and Vista on the same system so much as it stops Linux from
being able to read the Windows partitions on the system. Thats how I
understand it anyway. Then again its been awhile since I read much on
Vista besides its being delayed over and over.



On 5/15/06, der.hans <PLUGd at lufthans.com> wrote:
> Am 15. May, 2006 schwätzte Craig White so:
>
> > Normally, I wouldn't post up about Windows but I thought that this might
> > interest some...
> >
> > http://informationweek.com/
> >
> > See the link to 20 questions about Windows Vista (I didn't link it
> > directly since it attaches a session_id). This was the thing that I
> > found interesting...
> >
> > 20. Can a dual-boot PC be set up for Linux and Vista?
> >
> > At the moment, it appears that it will be exceedingly difficult, or even
> > impossible, to set up a dual-boot PC with both Linux and Vista on it.
> > That's because of Vista's new hardware-based encryption feature called
> > BitLocker Drive Encryption, which functions as a kind of data repository
> > that protects data in case a PC is stolen or lost.
>
> Is it per drive or per box? In other words could GNU/Linux just reside on
> another hard drive?
>
> Also, this seems to just be yet another way for m$ to make it hard to
> upgrade...
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
>
> > BitLocker Drive Encryption makes it difficult or impossible to exchange
> > the data required by a dual-boot system, says security guru Bruce
> > Schneir. "You could look at BitLocker as anti-Linux because it
> > frustrates dual-boot," he said at a panel at the Infosec conference in
> > London.
> >
> > However, not all versions of Vista use BitLocker. At the moment, it's
> > unclear if those other versions will be able to dual-boot between Linux
> > and Vista.
> >
> > Craig
> >
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