On Thursday, 25 August 2016 1:23:38 AM AEST Andrew McGlashan via luv-main wrote:
Yes, older tech may become a gold mine for those wanting to retain or get back a level of privacy and security that cannot be offered by a "Windows Appliance"... :(
And there is never any guarantees that machines will always be able to run Linux. Some of the new NUC computers from Intel have nothing about
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Device_Interface#GDI_printers Remember the "Win Printers"? They relied on part of the Windows graphics driver code to perform print rendering. For a while some people were worried about Linux being locked out of the printer market. Then MS released a new version of Windows that didn't support the drivers for those old printers and some of them became Linux-only printers.
non Windows OS support, but I was told, they all run Linux fine... The advertising has been dumbed down, the user is expected to run Windows.
With the Intel ME, CPU issues, hardware implementations [UEFI lock down for one], it doesn't auger well. Then of course there are all the
It is a concern. But one option for the more extremely locked down systems would be to exploit a bug in Windows to root the system, and root it again on every boot. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/