Some people call Linus Torvalds "rude". I call him "honest".

[Steve Harvey]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:45:01AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:09:23PM -0400, Antonio Sun wrote:

> 
> > I'm considering to buy a new PC, but I guess I better to wait until I'm
> > able to boot Linux from it, and the booting easy enough so that I don't
> > have to jump through several hoops to make it happen.
> 
> Waiting won't change anything.  If you can disable secureboot, then you
> should be fine.  If you can actually control secureboot then that's an
> even better design.
> 
  
  The Linux Foundation made available a UEFI Secure Boot pre-loader just over a
month ago.  It requires user presence so I wouldn't recommend this solution
in a server environment.  I would expect adoption by many distros in the
next few months.

-sgh
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