On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 02:01:47 AM Daniel Pittman wrote:

Personally, I would be finding a tame SuperMicro vendor in the region, who are extremely unlikely to stop selling Linux compatible systems, what with their business market using it and all.

It's worth noting that Matthew Garrett's original post explicitly said Microsoft were requiring this for systems shipped with a client version of Windows 8 - so server vendors won't be affected (as Microsoft knows they wouldn't stand a chance doing this in that market sector). cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP