[ale] OT: micro mini nano PC

[damon at damtek.com]

Yes, it can take mbr boots. I have a lab that consists of 10 of them. However, not all Linux kernel/distros installers are equal and not all of them will work. Centos 7 will, Debian does, an older version of sabyon did ( newer not tested by me) fedora 22 did. The first version of centos 7 did NOT but version like 1407 or some such did/do. Google your poison and nuc.  I like the New Unit of Compute, but I think I would like the Future Unit of Compute more.
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Damon Saturday, 30 January 2016, 04:54PM -05:00 from Steve Litt < slitt at troubleshooters.com> :

>On Sat, 30 Jan 2016 09:58:46 -0800
>Alex Carver < agcarver+ale at acarver.net > wrote:
>
>> On 2016-01-30 09:31, Steve Litt wrote:
>> > On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 23:20:22 -0500
>> > Chuck Payne < terrorpup at gmail.com > wrote:
>> > 
>> >> Intel NUC isn't just for windows, I have seen a tons of them
>> >> running openSUSE, Fedora, and Ubuntu. As long as you can do a
>> >> secure boot install, you can run Linux on them. 
>> > 
>> > That lets me out. I use Void Linux.
>> > 
>> > SteveT
>> > 
>> 
>> Secure boot can be disabled on the NUCs.  It's only required for
>> installing Windows.
>
>Ohhhhhhh!
>
>That lets me back in. I thought it was one of these new, Windows10
>certificate "secure boot off-switch is optional" mobos, lacking a secure
>boot off-switch.
>
>You don't know whether the NUC can also accommodate MBR boots, do you?
>All other things being equal, when I install Linux on a computer whose
>root partition drive is less than 2TB, I go MBR every chance I get.
>
>Thanks,
>
>SteveT
>
>Steve Litt 
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