[mythtv-users] OT - UEFI, Secure Boot, Fedora and nVidia drivers

[Ben Kamen]

On 2012-06-26 12:19 PM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Ben Kamen <bkamen at benjammin.net> wrote:
> .....
>> I've been watching it too -- irritated now that Microsoft has strong-armed
>> manufacturers into UEFI ultimately having some level of say in what I do
>> with hardware that isn't even running software from Microsoft.
>
> and will not have a problem disabling secure
> boot (if the manufacturer allows it) to load their OS of choice.


That's been exactly the worry presented in some threads -- that providing the BIOS option to disable it might prove to be more trouble than just not providing such an option.

Only time will tell.

  -Ben