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Free Software Foundation Campaign related to "Secure Boot"
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I also remember Bioware running a poll themselves as to what platforms should be supported. After tens of thousands of replies, linux took 54%, even beating out the likes of xbox 360 / playstation 3 / wii / etc by a heathy margin. This was well after Neverwinter Nights and still Bioware has not released a linux version of their games since.
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Originally posted by Azmo View PostThis does not contradict what I said.
Petitions can have an impact, especially if many people sign it.Last edited by deanjo; 05 November 2011, 08:43 PM.
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Originally posted by deanjo View PostFirst of all, it has the potential of preventing non-signed OS's of running depending on the motherboard manufacturer who ultimately controls what is implemented. It is up to them if they want to allow non "Secureboot" OS's to run (through the ability of disabling it). Second, petitions have never really worked. What is really needed is a lot of communication between the open source community and the motherboard manufacturers. The likes of Novell, Redhat, Canonical, AMD, Intel, etc have to start making real attempts at contacting these manufacturers and making sure that the compatibility is maintained (and while they are at it address other items like proper ACPI implementations and motherboard feature integration).
Petitions can have an impact, especially if many people sign it.
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Originally posted by Azmo View PostThere is a campaign to make sure the "Secure Boot" feature of UEFI (which is starting to replace the BIOS in newer x86 motherboards) does not prevent running free operating systems.
There are already almost 20,000 signers.
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Free Software Foundation Campaign related to "Secure Boot"
There is a campaign to make sure the "Secure Boot" feature of UEFI (which is starting to replace the BIOS in newer x86 motherboards) does not prevent running free operating systems.
There are already almost 20,000 signers.
The campaign can be found at http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-...stricted-boot/
Canonical also have a statement at http://blog.canonical.com/2011/10/28...pact-on-linux/
Some good information can be found at http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/5552.html
There was also a post on lwn.net earlier this year. see http://lwn.net/Articles/447381/
If you care about free OSs, you should really sign the statement to show your support. Hopefully is achieves something.
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