On Monday 25 June 2018 21:54:13 Felix Miata wrote: > William Morder composed on 2018-06-25 21:22 (UTC-0700): > > Beware of UEFI/EFI ... don't know if your devices have such new > > "features", as it was hard for me to keep track of the different devices, > > the various issues, and their place in your own scheme of things. But if > > you try to install a Linux system on a newer machine that has UEFI, it > > will "protect" you from the dangers of Linux and hackers. There are ways > > to disable UEFI, though. > > Like anything, to use it safely some (re-)education is involved, getting > the hang of new paradigms. I have two UEFI PCs. When I started composing > this I was doing my 7th (multiboot, adding OS #3 to an M.2 device) > installation in UEFI mode, *buntu 18.04, to become Tubuntu, to follow-up on > a year-old, still open TDE bug, but it's already finished and rebooted. I had a friend who tried to install Trisquel Ubuntu on a new Toshiba laptop, but wasn't familiar with the newer UEFI, and thus turned her machine into a brick. Still no luck unlocking or resuscitating it, last I heard. Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
