[olug] Windows 8

[T. J. Brumfield]

For those who don't know, OEMs who want to use the "Designed for Windows 8"
sticker must use a secure UEFI boot, which will prevent people from
installing Grub and dual-booting.

And Windows 7 SP1 refuses to install on a dual-boot box because it sees the
boot loader has changed and won't do the upgrade. I suspect Windows 8 will
refuse to install on an existing dual-boot Windows 7 box for the same
reason.

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Cooper Vertz <olug at vertz.info> wrote:

> I tried it on my Fedora laptop, it's not horrible.
> It wiped away grub, but other than that no problems.
> "chainloader +1" is still the right way to dual boot it from grub, no
> change
> there.
>
> Keepin' it about linux...
>
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Jason N <dashrender at cox.net> wrote:
>
> > I was also very worried about the Metro UI, but since watching the Build
> > Keynote Address, I'm less worried.  yes it sucks that for the home user,
> > they are stuck with the Metro UI as the default (of course until some
> > programmer makes a simple install program to change it) the traditional
> > desktop that people are currently accustomed to will be available.
> >
> > Businesses on the other hand will have the ability to have the Explorer
> > Desktop be the default.  I also found it interesting to read in Paul
> > Thurrott's review of Windows 8 that is is more of an update and a full
> out
> > upgrade, much like Windows 7 was to Windows Vista, that is outside of the
> > metro UI of course.
> >
> > Anyone here loaded the pre-beta yet? Should I even be asking this on a
> > linux group :P
> >
> >
> >
> > ---- Chad Homan <choman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sticking with ubuntu (or other linux)
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Timothy Goshinski <
> tgoshinski at gmail.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > I hate it with a passion, and I'm primarily a .NET developer at my day
> > job.
> > > The Metro UI might work for a phone or a tablet, but it is a
> fustercluck
> > of
> > > desktop WM - if they don't listen to reason they will take a bigger
> bath
> > on
> > > this one than Vista and WinME combined.
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more of
> > it
> > > I
> > > have."  -- Thomas Jefferson
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Charles Bird <cbird.omaha at gmail.com
> > > >wrote:
> > >
> > > > What's windows 8? Never heard of it.
> > > > On Sep 27, 2011 10:16 PM, "Chad Homan" <choman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > Right now, I am not worrying about it. I downloaded the "RCs" (if
> you
> > > > will)
> > > > > but have not found the
> > > > > time to look at them. Bottom line is that Win8 is still 6+ months
> > away.
> > > > > Not to mention integration test
> > > > > time. I think Win10 will be out be the time I am ready
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:07 PM, ned mcnally <
> ned.mcnally at gmail.com
> > >
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >> I know this is a Linux group, but what do you guys think so far
> > about
> > > > >> Windows 8?
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