nomnex wrote: > I also read that (most?) vendor will allow Secure boot to be switch off > on the BIOS. > > When I purchase a notebook (Prior to Secure boot), I erase the > partition. I boot from a Live CD. If everything seems to work, and if I > like the DE, I install the OS. > > And that's my question with these new UEFI+Secure boot machines: If I > turn Secure boot OFF, can I install a live CD as I used to do. Or is > there more? As I understand it, yes. You should also be able to do that without turning Secure Boot off (which is the point of the work that Matthew Garrett has been doing). As always, though, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, so how reliable it will be in practice remains to be seen. As Linus Torvalds wrote (on a different subject) on the linux-kernel mailing list: “Do you have any reason to expect that all BIOS’es are bug-free in this area? That would be a first.” and “BIOS writers tend to have been on pain medication for so long that they can hardly remember their own name, much less actually make sure they follow all the documentation.” James. -- E-mail: james@ | "Security question ... What's your dog's maiden name?" aprilcottage.co.uk | -- Peter Gutmann on bad security designs -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
