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To: antiRepublicrat; FLAMING DEATH
>> I’m still dying to know if I can boot Ubuntu on a Surface, though

> No. Windows 8 will use Secure Boot, optional on PCs, but mandatory for tablets. No OS or driver without a cryptographically signed key will run on the hardware. Fedora purchased a key through Microsoft's developer portal, and that pissed off a lot of people. Ubuntu has not purchased a key.

Well, that's poop-y. (The Secure Boot I mean.) Microsoft's fawning imitation of everything Apple does -- in this case running a closed "walled garden" -- is getting out of hand.

Key-wise, I wonder about CentOS, since that's closely related to Fedora. CentOS is my favorite distro by far.

34 posted on 06/22/2012 10:37:31 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: dayglored
Key-wise, I wonder about CentOS, since that's closely related to Fedora. CentOS is my favorite distro by far.

Nope. Whoever compiles the binaries has to sign, and I doubt Fedora will let them use their key.

35 posted on 06/22/2012 10:48:55 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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