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On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Rich Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote: > No, it isn't. But saying "some web site I read said something doesn't > work" and taking it at face value is. A fair bit of the anti-UEFI > sentiment comes from this kind of "evidence". Saying "Let's test it" is the exact opposite of taking it at face value. > I'll bet more of you have Secure Boot capable computers than you > realize. Dell has been shipping UEFI Secure Boot firmware since August, > maybe earlier, and the most recent "BIOS" firmware updates for most > current models add Secure Boot to the options. If you've purchased Dell > in the last couple of months or installed one of these firmware updates > then you're running with UEFI Secure Boot. It's turned off, of course, > just as I've been describing all along. My last laptop purchase was about two years ago A.$300 Acer laptop, including the cost of an 8 GB RAM upgrade. No Secure Boot, no UEFI, just a plain old BIOS. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix PGP KeyID: 32A492D8 / Email: abreauj at gmail.com PGP FP: 7834 AEC2 EFA3 565C A4B6 9BA4 0ACB AD85 32A4 92D8
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