[Bradford] Fwd: Re: Linux Help Please!

[Nick Rhodes]

I have just checked my Google Calendar to find the date of the next meeting. The 
'IT Stuff' Calendar was there but not BradLUG. I checked the web site and that is 
the same - no BradLUG meeting date.


The fly in the ointment now, for a Linux installation, is if the computer has UEFI. 
Unless it can simply set to 'Legacy' then the installation is going to be far more 
difficult - just as Microsoft hoped of course. 
So I'd be interested to know, if anyone knows how, how to install a Linux distro, 
under UEFI,  that hasn't paid the Microsoft fine for a certificate. For my part I will 
never want to use Windows but it can be useful to keep it on disk so as to retain 
warranty on new computers and if I was to do an install for someone who wants to 
retain Windows for whatever reason.


Brian










On 6 January 2014 14:07, Nick Rhodes <nick at ngrhodes.co.uk[1]> wrote:


 Debian at-least gives you a "Yes do as I say" confirmation forremoving key packages.



j.r.hudson at virginmedia.com[2]> wrote:> On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 11:53 +0000, David 
Spencer wrote:>> And reduce the number of such key packages... and distinguish 
better>> between install, upgrade and remove use cases... and make it easier to>> 
rollback changes... and mitigate the consequences of removal... and>> have the 
tools fall back gracefully if components or package state>> data are unavailable... 
and... and...>>> Perhaps it would be worth having a session at the next meeting on 
the> options. openSUSE appears to have two separate options - command line> and 
GUI - so that if one goes down the other is available.>> On one occasion (the only 
one in over eight years of using SUSE and> openSUSE) when someone borked an 
update to a package, they simply> published a command line sequence to restore 
the missing functionality.>> John> -->>>> 
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