Timely_Jellyfish_2077@programming.dev to Linux@lemmy.ml · edit-217 hours agoHow would Linux have been today if locked bootloaders were as common in the 90s as they are now on ARM devices?message-squaremessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up184arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up183arrow-down1message-squareHow would Linux have been today if locked bootloaders were as common in the 90s as they are now on ARM devices?Timely_Jellyfish_2077@programming.dev to Linux@lemmy.ml · edit-217 hours agomessage-square31fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarewildbus8979@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up79·15 hours agoYou should go read Microsoft’s attempt at excluding Linux/Unix from running on x86 using ACPI! https://web.archive.org/web/20070202174648/http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03020.pdf
minus-squareMwa@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-236 minutes agoUnix also including mac and bsds?
minus-squarewildbus8979@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-234 minutes agoBSDs mostly, Mac wasn’t a Unix based system at the time. It also didn’t run on x86.
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up7·3 hours agoBtw, in the end, they did this with their office format.
minus-squarenilloc@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·29 minutes agoBrowser too, and the whole activeX, and DirectX api system to practically force windows only development.
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·18 minutes agoYeah, same with gaming until Proton came along
minus-squarenanook@friendica.eskimo.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down5·11 hours ago@wildbus8979 @Timely_Jellyfish_2077 youtube.com/watch?v=2DvOTjDmrU…
You should go read Microsoft’s attempt at excluding Linux/Unix from running on x86 using ACPI!
https://web.archive.org/web/20070202174648/http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03020.pdf
Unix also including mac and bsds?
BSDs mostly, Mac wasn’t a Unix based system at the time. It also didn’t run on x86.
Btw, in the end, they did this with their office format.
Browser too, and the whole activeX, and DirectX api system to practically force windows only development.
Yeah, same with gaming until Proton came along
@wildbus8979 @Timely_Jellyfish_2077 youtube.com/watch?v=2DvOTjDmrU…