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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 03 2012 @ 01:08 PM EDT |
As I understand it, both RedHat's and Ubuntu's solutions assume a
single OS
loaded on a PC. As a dual booter this is huge. Are we to be locked out
of new
mobos in the future?
I don't see a problem. Did you have a
specific issue in mind?
My laptop is dual boot. First I installed Windows,
then Ubuntu (actually, a few versions of Ubuntu). The MBR boots the Linux
bootloader which also has the ability to boot Windows from its hard drive
partition. So long as Ubuntu picks a bootloader that can also handle Windows,
that arrangement should still be possible.
And for RedHat, the issue is even
less worrisome. They are just using two bootloaders, the second of which is
Grub and known to handle Windows.
For other combinations (Linux + ?? OS dual
boot), it'll depend on whether the bootloader can handle it. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Tuesday, July 03 2012 @ 04:00 PM EDT |
At this point, Balmer must be grinning, because
they have split the GPL community with Redhat
and Canonical *REACTING* in different ways.
But note that they are REACTING to a threat
that has not really happened yet.
There is no reason to react yet.
There is plenty of time to make the hardware
vendors do the right thing.
The onus is on the hardware vendors, if they
support Microsoft lockin, they should go out of
business. They should also have to be worrying
about conspiracy and antitrust charges.
Both Redhat and Canonical have reacted without
really thinking through the long-term implications.
They need to step back, take a breath, and re-assess.
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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 10:08 AM EDT |
Especially given Microsoft's past performance in attempting to make dual boot
to non-Microsoft more difficult?
RAS[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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