[GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;
Russell Reiter
rreiter91 at gmail.com
Sat Jul 30 12:30:13 EDT 2016
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> So, if I buy a white box (e.g. Dell) I'll have to wipe the HDD and start
again,
Dell is a branded manufacturer. OEM whiteboxes are usually assembled by a
local integrator, or yourself, from branded and or unbranded parts you
source out.
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> If I can't get the white box vendor's ironclad assurance of hardware
compatibility with Linux, I could wind up
This has been the adventure.
> stuck with a PC I can't use. I agree it's a small risk. But the advent of
"secure boot" and UEFI make me nervous, I understand that these are not yet
supported under Linux.
Secure boot is a misnomer. Trusted boot would be a better term, if it
weren't most probably just a way of slowing down adoption of Foss operating
systems using FUD.
However anti-trust laws are in place and Foss support is well ... Sorry I
can't help myself ...
The Foss is strong within BIOS. Luke, do or do not, there is no try. :-)
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> So my compromise is to specify precisely the components I want (having
carefully researched their compatibility with Linux) and then decide how to
get the PC built from those components.
One gotcha is the middleware, even branded hw may say linux supported but
there is no API or a sketchy one at best.
Russell
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