Re: [orca-list] Gnome 3.10 on Ubuntu 13.10

["Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona" <hanksmith hanksmith net>]

hp  have this uifi, toshibas, have it gateways have it dells have it not 
sure who else has it but I can also aggree I personally had to go threw 
this and it is a royal pain in the ass to.
Hank

On 1/13/2014 3:53 PM, Jason White wrote:
> Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com> wrote:
>   
> > Right now, though, I'm trying to iron out all the UEFI crap and
> > the Secure Boot mess that comes with windows 8 pre-installed machines.  If
> > you haven't tried this, be prepared for an exquisite, acute and colossal
> > pain in the tenderest part of your back side.  Disabling secure boot and
> > getting your machine to boot Linux with UEFI can't be done without sighted
> > assistance afaik.  Get ready for lots of reading too as there's a very
> > particular process you need to follow.
> And unfortunately that process varies depending on the firmware vendor.
>
> The best option for Linux users at this point is to buy machines that don't
> have UEFI secure boot enabled, especially for those who may need to install
> their own kernels. If I were buying right now, I would purchase a machine with
> an IPMI controller to provide access to the firmware over the network, which
> would at least make it accessible.
>
> Note that Orca can't help with this process, although there are tools for
> configuring UEFI once Linux has successfully booted. I don't have a machine
> with UEFI capabilities as yet, so this is all based on what I've read, and
> upon listening to Matthew Garrett's presentations on UEFI at LCA conferences.
>
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