[ale] OT: micro mini nano PC

[Charles Shapiro]

FWIW here at the office we just bought a couple of Asus UN42 "Vivo Mini"
computers from Fry's at a ridiculous sale price. They're about 5x1 inches (
maybe 4 decks of cards stacked 2 high), 2 gb memory with 32 gb of ssd drive
space and a Celeron CPU. They ship with Lose 8 or something.  Our Sainted
Sysadmin got Debian running on them no problem.

-- CHS


On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 12:24 AM, DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:

> Thought UEFI BIOS had a place for a cert that signed the kernels. It is
> just that cert is pre-installed from MSFT since that is what most people
> use.  OTOH, I dunno.
>
>  Read an article that the LF figured out a cross-platform way to NOT use
> MSFT certs, but retain the desired boot-chain validation.
>
> OTOH, I dunno what was actually implemented.
>
> On 01/31/16 22:52, damon at damtek.com wrote:
> > The below is not true based on what I *think* I know. Sabayon was (they
> > claim) the first to boot with a secure image and they do it with a self
> > signed cert. Now if hardware MFG don't allow for that, THEN the run of
> > the mill distribution will be in trouble. Nothing (directly) to do with
> > MS at all. And if windows does not want to dual boot, then don't. Rather
> > boot withe two SEPARATE disks and use UEFI bios to boot the appropriate
> OS.
> >
> > --
> > Sent from myMail app for Android
> >
> > Damom
> >
> > Saturday, 30 January 2016, 06:55PM -05:00 from Alex Carver
> > <agcarver+ale at acarver.net <mailto:agcarver+ale at acarver.net>>:
> >
> >     The problem is that Linux Foundation is entirely dependent on
> >     Microsoft's good graces to sign their bootloader with Microsoft's
> key.
> >     Should Microsoft one day decide it has no desire to do that then that
> >     locks out many systems that did not provide the kill switch for
> Secure
> >     Boot or the ability to add personal signing keys.
> >
> >
> >
> >     On 2016-01-30 15:44, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
> >     > SecureBoot is recommended for Linux Workstations by the Linux
> >     > Foundation. It is a good idea for everyone, not just Windows.
> >     >
> >     >
> >
> https://github.com/lfit/itpol/blob/master/linux-workstation-security.md
> >     >
> >     > Checklist
> >     > * System supports SecureBoot (ESSENTIAL)
> >     > * System has no firewire, thunderbolt or ExpressCard ports (NICE)
> >     > * System has a TPM chip (NICE)
> >     >
> >     > So - it appears a $230 Chromebook (1080p screen) meets these
> >     conditions.
> >     > Nice!
> >     >
> >     > That doesn't mean those corporate overlords (LF overlords) don't
> have
> >     > ulterior motives, but it probably does mean that MSFT isn't the
> >     only one.
> >     >
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