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Re:Coreboot Blocked from Recent Thinkpads by Intel Boot Guard by sliverstorm on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @03:08AM (#9136593)
As you picture this dystopia, remember there is zero chance server hardware will wall out Linux. Amazon, Google, etc all run their entire data centers on one distro or another.
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Re:Coreboot Blocked from Recent Thinkpads by Intel Boot Guard by pgeorgi on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @03:46AM (#9136711)
BootGuard won't prevent Linux from running. But in Verified Boot mode it prevents coreboot, and with it any work to customize the even lower layers of the system.
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