Windows 8's use of the UEFI Secure Boot

[Sharl.Jimh.Tsin]

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On 2011?09?24? 01:47, Bill Stanley wrote:
> I heard about the UEFI Secure Boot feature that might impair installing
> an alternate OS (Linux) or prevent the use of Dual Boot.  Supposedly it
> would be a part of the motherboard hardware and prevent ANY changes to
> the boot sector.   Supposedly it would prevent root-kits as there would
> be no way to get around it.  Has anybody heard more about this and what
> would the Ubuntu community do about this?
> 
> Bill Stanley
> 

Ubuntu is my only installed OS in my hard disk,and i will not buy the
machine related to UEFI.

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