Ubuntu

[John J. Macey]

I would think that the Linux Kernel will incorporate some type of 
equivalent / better version of this BIOS replacement.

On 09/11/2014 11:07 AM, Stephen Partington wrote:
> That is interesting. but i am not sure that will be a full solution, 
> great fro citrix however.
>
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 8:01 AM, John J. Macey <jjmacey at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jjmacey at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     Stephen,
>
>     I am not sure, if this addresses the issue completely (or, at
>     all), Xen EFI Support Being Added To Linux 3.17
>     <http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTc1NDg>.
>     Whenever a new kernel rolls out, I always up-date my machine.
>
>     John
>
>
>
>     On 09/11/2014 10:44 AM, Stephen Partington wrote:
>>     I am a big fan of UEFI secure boot from the context of security.
>>     I am not a fan that the industry let MS set the rules. I think
>>     form the perspective of securing your firmware/bios and making a
>>     secure chain boot handoff to an OS with full disk encryption it
>>     will significantly reduce the shenanigans that can be performed
>>     on your mobile computing devices and even slow down rootkits for
>>     a while.
>>
>>     But unfortunately that did not happen and MS dictated the rules.
>>     The linux world can easily catch up and more but there seems to
>>     be a resistance to it that i am unsure of how to put my finger on
>>     nor have i yet seen the real logic of the resistance except that
>>     it is an MS baby now.
>>
>>     On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 7:25 AM, John J. Macey <jjmacey at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:jjmacey at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>>         I'd rather just move it to a vm under linux until it can be
>>>         jettisoned later.
>>
>>         I would go with Michael's idea. I use Virtualbox to play M$
>>         7, and it /boots far, far faster/ than a stand alone M$ machine.
>>
>>         John
>>
>>
>>         On 09/11/2014 10:20 AM, Michael Butash wrote:
>>>         I think Stephen's spell check meant UEFI not Jedi, but his
>>>         star-wars propensities won.
>>>
>>>         You should be able to get ubuntu working with secureboot,
>>>         but I've never done a dual boot personally. Make sure you
>>>         look at it from the UEFI perspective.  As Stephen also
>>>         indicted, you can set to boot in "legacy mode" too, but that
>>>         will break windoze ability to secureboot.
>>>
>>>         Thank microsoft and their for making cronie hardware oem's
>>>         have to protect their crappy os from infection (and
>>>         replacement).  I'd rather just move it to a vm under linux
>>>         until it can be jettisoned later.
>>>
>>>         -mb
>>>
>>>
>>>         On 09/10/2014 10:08 PM, Stephen Partington wrote:
>>>>         If it is newer hardware with Jedi secured boot, the you
>>>>         will need to make sure that the Jedi firmware is configured
>>>>         to allow an so besides windows.
>>>>
>>>>         On Wednesday, September 10, 2014, Seth Jones
>>>>         <roleplayerseth at gmail.com
>>>>         <mailto:roleplayerseth at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>             Trying to install Ubuntu alongside Windows 8. I have a
>>>>             properly formatted install disc and have followed the
>>>>             included instructions, but no matter what I try, my
>>>>             computer still boots to Windows. Can anyone help?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         -- 
>>>>         A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will
>>>>         prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after
>>>>         you hit the snooze button.
>>>>
>>>>         Stephen
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>     -- 
>>     A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you
>>     from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the
>>     snooze button.
>>
>>     Stephen
>>
>
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>
>
> -- 
> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from 
> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>
> Stephen
>


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John

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