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Windows 8 OEM specs may block Linux booting
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RE: Windows 8 OEM specs may block Linux booting
(20/09/2011 09:43 PM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  Hopefully mobo manufactures will be smart enough to allow signed booting to be disabled.

This. I'm not too worried about it to be honest - but so long as dual-booting isn't possible I won't move on to 8.

Don't like that kind of lockdown.

Honestly, a bit surprised that they are requiring EFI as the article suggests. What of older hardware?
21/09/2011 01:43 AM
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RE: Windows 8 OEM specs may block Linux booting - S7* - 21/09/2011 01:43 AM

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