On 23/09/11 15:15, Weaver wrote: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:04:51 +1000 > Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 23/09/11 09:01, Alex wrote: <snipped>
>>> empire' did actually achieve that draconian, monopolistic goal. >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> Alex >>> >>> >> Check out Coreboot - and research before buying a device/motherboard. > > That's one way, but new tech is getting to the stage where it won't > work off a standard BIOS. Untrue (see further down for why). Note that U/EFI has been around for more than 20 years - still hasn't delivered - yes it can obscure code from the user, which is a good reason not to use a traditional BIOS anyway - but it's definitely not the be-all-and-end-all. It fails to support a lot of firmware - don't expect that situation to change anytime soon. > You need the UEFI base to handle such things > as the new 4 TB drives from Seagate and Hitachi now. No - read on. :-) > > Here are a couple of articles that bear on the subject: > > http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/will-windows-8-block-users-from-dual-booting-linux-microsoft-wont-say/10772 > > http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/microsoft-tries-to-block-linux-off-windows-8-pcs/9572 > > Regards, > > Weaver. > > Those articles are not strictly true - your old 16-bit BIOS will happily handle those large hard drives - the limitation is not the BIOS - it's the partition table and the OS. Linux/BSD/MAC/late versions of Windoof will all handle GPT. Those articles just blindly published marketing stories by Brian Richardson, see one of his disingenuous posts down the bottom of this story:- http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1740439/uefi Given your choice of pseudonym you should no better than to fall for such marketing guff. :-) Cheers -- "As if growing up wasn't hard enough - I had a genius for an older brother. I'd say "I don't have to do anything!" and he'd say "Yeah you do - take up space, displace matter".... I'd go "Oh yeah?" even as a kid I was king of the comebacks" — Bill Hicks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e7c3eed.3080...@gmail.com
