[OpenIndiana-discuss] An article from "the register"

[Gabriel de la Cruz]

When David Carlson told Microsoft that their main marketing challenge
was that people hated them, they were staring at him as if they
couldn't understand what he was saying...

Someones never learn

Cheers


On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Open Indiana <openindiana at out-side.nl> wrote:
> This is very bad news. All our servers have a dual-boot system partition so
> we can choose between IIS and apache every time we reboot......
>
> *sigh*
>
> Imho hardware is having such great performance that within a couple of
> months, maybe 2 years, all desktops (but maybe tablets and phones too) will
> have some kind of hypervisor that will boot at first. After the boot one can
> choose between the different OS's the mainhardware supports.
> If I remember correct HTC has announced a dualboot mobile phone by which the
> user can choose between the private or the company phone.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LinuxBSDos.com [mailto:finid at linuxbsdos.com]
> Sent: donderdag 22 september 2011 12:35
> To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] An article from "the register"
>
>>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/21/secure_boot_firmware_linux_exclusion
> _fears/
>>
>> 2 points:
>> 1) I hope that this doesn't happen because it'll be a pain for us as well.
>>
>> 2) "... Secondly, in the near future the design of the kernel will
>> mean that the kernel itself is part of the bootloader ..."
>>
>> Do you know if this _is_ the direction that grub is going, if so can
>> we still be a part of it?
>>
>
> It will not pass in Europe, but in the US of A, our elected officials will
> let it slide.
>
> --
> Fini.
>
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