Linux alternative to securecrt?

Is there something similar to securecrt for linux? Something that can store lists of SSH hosts in groups, autologin, and provide tab support?
Thanks,
Jason

There's always PuTTY (without tab support).

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Kubuntu Linux alternative to Win7 on NB505-N508BN

Hi, here's a quick summary on installing Linux on my NB505-N508BN netbook (Win7 Starter, Atom Processor, 2GB RAM), If you're looking to have some fun with the netbook and are bored with Windows, try it out. Linux is free, open source sw and there are various linux packages. I chose Kubuntu (Ubuntu linux packaged by KDE).
Pros: nice alternative to Win 7 (starter or otherwise)
Cons: Battery gets drained faster than in Windows, and if you're looking for long hours of use, linux may not be for you.
From Windows, open a browser, and find/download Kubuntu 11.04, nicknamed "Natty Narwhal". Unzip it and find and run an installer called 'wubi'. It'll install Kubuntu alongside Win 7. You'll have to 'restart' to finish the installation at the end of which you restart once again. This time, hit F12 and you'll have the option to boot from Windows or Kubuntu. Choose Kubuntu. If you really want, you can also download and install an image file onto a USB drive (get the Universal-usb-installer-1.8.6.0.exe; look up Pendrivelinux.com) and run Kubuntu from the usb drive itself.
Raw Kubuntu 11.04 needs tweaks. Open its Rekonq browser, and download Firefox 4 (for Kubuntu/ubuntu)) and install. Then install Flash and Java. You'll need to open a terminal window and type commands to download. Here's the site for Java: http://www.multimediaboom.com/how-to-install-java-in-ubuntu-11-04-natty-narwhal-ppa/ Also, you can improve the Firefox setup by downloading the Oxygen theme: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Oxygen+KDE+%28Firefox+Theme%29?content=117962
Install Skype (the webcam video turns out a bit darker than in the windows version) and Dropbox to share files in the Cloud. For audio and video play, fire up and configure the Amarok and Dragon Player that come with Kubuntu. You'll lose the Fn-#3 and Fn-#4 key volume control but use a volume control app called KMix instead.
Connect to Wifi by finding your home or hotspot wifi (note: it saves your wifi passwd in sleep/hibernate, but not if you reboot; you have to reenter it).
The file organizer "Dolphin" is the equivalent of Windows Explorer. Find all your Windows files by clicking on Local Disk and drilling down. Kubuntu comes wih free LibreOffice that is like MS Office. I've opened and used Excel and Word files and saved them in MSOffice ('97 - 2000) formats.
Download Avast! anti virus for linux (it's a 1 yr free subscription for a home workstation). Don't get the free AVG anti virus for linux -it doesn't install right. Note: you don't really need antivirus for linux, because linux is open source sw which is no safe haven for viruses. But I transfer files between my linux and windows folders, and so want to prevent ransferring a virus inadvertently). Download the Avast! DEB package: http://www.avast.com/linux-home-edition#tab4 and use right-click to open and install with GDebi package installer. Also setup a firewall (UFW or 'uncomplicated firewall'): https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UncomplicatedFirewall.
The look and feel of Kubuntu linux is quite inuitive, it boots fast, runs fast, even on my netbook with just 2GB RAM and an Atom processor. Right now, I'm posting this from my Firefox browser in Kubuntu. I haven't gone back to Windows except to backup my files onto a portable drive using EaseUS Todo software (since I can't find that sw for linux).
Hope this gives you an idea of what you need to do to setup a linux alternative to Windows. Note: there are other flavors of linux like plain Ubuntu or others like Xubuntu and Edubuntu, openSUSE etc. Check out what they're about. Overall, if you are willing and able, you can have linux up and running and customized in a day or two. It's pretty cool. See some of the screenshots I have posted below as png graphics files.
The only downside I see: the battery doesn't last as long as it did running Win 7 starter, for the same kind of tasks. I think I get about 2/3 rd the number of hours that I would get with Win 7 starter. Someone did a detailed study (http://www.carstenboysenjensen.com/en/articles/linux-distro-battery-test.html) and discovered that other flavors of linux - even supposedly 'lighter' ones, fare no better wrt battery life and that the culprit might be excessive hard drive access (and, consequently, I suspect, the fan, which works harder to keep the drive and other components cool). But otherwise, my Kubuntu 11.04 install on my netbook is fast, stable and great to work with.
Cheers!
Nat
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Hi, just a quick update. The 11.04 (K)ubuntu linux distro drains the battery significantly faster than Win 7. I recently learned that the kernel in 11.04 is far more power consuming than kernels used in previous distros such as 10.10 and that it is not clear why or how to overcome this. In this regard, the kernel in 11.04 is a step back from the earlier kernels, which is not a good thing for linux if it is to continue competing with Windows or the Mac's OS, particularly for very mobile devices such as laptops and netbooks that one wants to use unplugged and on battery alone for many hours -that's the whole point of being mobile. This is unfortunate, because Linux is otherwise a very viable and capable OS.
My advice to folks on this forum who still would like to play with linux is to try the older versions such as (K)ubuntu 10.10 or just hang on to Windows 7 for now.
Nat

Linux alternative for Jiggler?

I'm wondering if there is a Linux alternative for Jiggler. Jiggler is a small OS X application which basically keeps your computer awake or your display from going to screensaver or switching off by "jiggling" the computer every so often if there has been no user activity. For example, you can tell it to "jiggle" every 2 minutes and it will then make sure that something happens at least every two minutes to keep the machine fully alert. You can also set it to "jiggle" only if certain applications are running although this bit isn't especially important to me - I don't think I ever used it.
What is nice about Jiggler is that you can start it when giving a presentation, for example, without having to reconfigure all of your energy-saving and display settings. If you then spend a while talking about a slide or in discussion, you don't have to keep returning to your laptop to bring the display back to life.

Mr.Elendig wrote:How about just run a script that toggles the dpms? That sounds like a much cleaner, saner and less hackish way.
Thanks very much. I had no idea what dpms was. Man pages suggest that this concerns whether or not the computer controls the power state of a display. So if it is enabled for a display, blanking, sleep etc. will be triggered for that display after a certain time according to the system's standard power management configuration. If it is not enabled, these will not affect that particular display. Is that correct?
So I could essentially disable dpms for the relevant VGA display. (I'm not bothered if my laptop display goes to screensaver etc. - just that the main output on the screen doesn't disappear.)
Is it possible to do this by simply writing "Off" to /sys/devices/pci0000\:00/0000\:00\:02.0/drm/card0/card0-VGA-1/dpms? Or would that be much too easy or otherwise ill advised?

Solaris Express , Developer Edition as a linux alternative

Hi Folks,
there is no doubt that Solaris began shining lately . I'm thinking to install it on my laptop as an alternative to linux to develop web applications .
some issues are bothering my a lot, I'll name them to you ,so we can decide together :
1. ruby official website does not provide a solaris package, how to develop Rails websites then ?
2. Mono has no official package for x86 machines running solaris , only Solaris 8 (Sparc) is supported .
I'm very interested in Solaris, especially Developer edition , eager to start to installing it !
what do you think ?

I think I hope it installs, especially on a laptop system. It failes to install on every desktop system here, I wouldn't dare put it in my laptop and see what it says. Laptops usually have a more esoteric hardware configuration than desktop systems.
For you I really don't see the benefit of switching operating systems just to develop web applications. If you were a Java developer developing J2EE web applications then Solaris and it's integrated Java Enterprise system and first-rate developer tools would be a great change, but for Ruby on Rails and Mono - I don't see the point.
For Ruby there may be a package available, check the OpenSolaris website and see if it has been ported over (it most probably has been, but I haven't checked yet).
For Mono... I don't see the point in developing .NET web applications for Linux/Solaris, so I won't go there. Mono is a joke compared to Microsoft's .NET platform.

Z60t Linux - Alternatives to Atheros

Trying to get Linux (ubuntu 9.04, 9.1 or 10.04) working on z60t with Atheros wireless card. Impossible... lots of chatter on the forums about this and even MadWifi doesn't seem to work. Will the system support an Intel Pro Wireless.... 3945ABG as a substitute card (support for this card seems good)? My concern is that something else in the system will cause this card to fail.. bios, antenna, etc. Thanks a bunch.. i don't mind picking up a new card, just would rather not use an external usb card etc.

the Z60t only supports one wireless card natively according to Lenovo's part list, which is the one that you have now.
Regards,
Jin Li
May this year, be the year of 'DO'!
I am a volunteer, and not a paid staff of Lenovo or Microsoft

Satellite A300 fan control under Linux

Hi all,
I'm running Fedora 9 (kernel 2.6.26) on my Toshiba A300 (T8100, 3Gb of ram). Almost every piece of hardware is running correctly (except the radeon 3650 card, but that was expected and people are working on a driver for it). Now the only issue that I'm facing is the CPU fan noise. What happens is that even if I keep the laptop idle purposely for a long period (CPU activity is vey low), the CPU fan keeps spinning during all that period and is very noisy and very disturbing.
Typically the fan starts spinning (at 100% of its rpm, very loud) as soon as I boot the PC and doesn't stop at all. When I boot under Windows Vista, the fan behaves differently, that's it starts spinning when there is a long high workload period and then slows down and eventually stops when the PC becomes idle.
I tried using different CPU governors (Linux kernel drivers) such as conservative and powersave and nothing changed. The noise is there, the fans are spinning *without* actually decreasing the CPU temperature (which is constant ~45 C when the it's idle), etc.
So any ideas, guys, on how I can fix this situation. Is there a tool to control the CPU fan speed from user-space? What about ACPI? Sensors? The laptop is a nice piece of hardware but the fan noise is killing the whole user experience.
Regards,
Ilyes Gouta.

I have no Linux experiences, but you could try and search for an Linux alternative of the program notebook hardware control (NHC) or get it to work using wine.
Also have tried to look for any fixes or patches, but only found for other notebooks.
Maybe some Linux forums could give you a more precise answer than me.

Memory space using a 32bit Java process on Redhat Linux

I have a java process that I need a lot of memory for. Its a 32 bit process, and I have no desire to have it as 64bit due to the huge pointers it forces.
So I know I can turn to Solaris where I will have close to 4GB of memory available for this process (right?). But are there Linux alternatives? I am especially curious regarding Redhat on intel64 machines as I have (which is the common desktop hardware nowadays).
I heard about the hugemem kernel for Redhat, but I am lost understading its nature. It is said it is not available for v.5 for x86. So is it available for the intel64 processors as I have? And what is the max memory space for a java process?
Any other bit of information about java 32bit process running on a linux flavor on an intel64 machine will be greatly appreciated.
thanks in advance!
Woody
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I'd say this is normal. There are a few things to consider when looking at an application like this:
1. The 14 MB your process consumes include the memory required to load the java virtual machine. That is, all the base classes, native links, the just in time compiler etc. 14 MB isn't a lot, all things considered.
2. When you display a message box, java will load additional classes and resources. They increase the heap size, though not really by 4 MB. Java preallocates portions of memory for the heap. If, for instance, your application consumes 16 MB of memory and you allocate another MB, the heap size may grow to 32 MB. Having a free section of heap space to spare increases performance, since java won't have to ask the underlying system for free memory every you create an object. You might want to check out your program in JVisualVM (deployed with every JDK6), which will tell you how much of the allocated heap size is really in use, or you can rely on the according methods in the Runtime class.
3. The JVM is capable of 'heap shrinking', meaning it will return allocated sections of memory to the OS once in a while. However, it will not do so unless the heap size is significantly larger than the used portion of the heap (otherwise, it would defeat the purpose of preallocating memory). So if you allocate 2GB of RAM when clicking your button and allow this memory to be cleared by the garbage collector, you'll observe that the heap will shrink again eventually.

How can I recover files from a hard disk that I erased using the Erase Disk command in Disk Utility?

Thanks for your help!

Kappy wrote:
True but a DVD is a lot less expensive than the cost of commercial recovery software. TestDisk is also free but it is a set of Terminal programs.
Yes, it's not for GUI only using folks.
Free Linux alternatives are awkward. First, you have to download a Linux ISO and burn it to a DVD. Then boot the live demo and install Linux. That requires first partitioning the hard drive. And, on and on. It's nice if you already have a Linux installed.
Linux doesn't have to be installed. It can be loaded into RAM for the duration of the recovery.
Even if PartedMagic can be downloaded with a bootable Linux system it must still be burned to a DVD.
Any computer can be used to burn the ISO to disk, which makes it attractive in that regard.
Once PM is burned and booted off of it's loaded into RAM and flushed upon a reboot.
But the data recovery software in PM requires familiarity of the command line. That's it's drawback unfortunately.
However one can transfer files that were not deleted using this method.
...using recovery software such as Data Rescue II, File Salvage or TechTool Pro. Each of the preceding come on bootable CDs to enable usage without risk of writing more data to the hard drive.
Those "bootable cd's" of Data Rescue, File Salvage, and TechTool are probablly using Linux as it's a free OS.
Apple won't allow their OS to be used, Microsoft charges a huge license fee. So that only leaves Linux.
The user likely won't know that they are using Linux when using the bootable recovery disk, all they see is the recovery GUI.
Data Rescue is likely best downloaded, installed and run from a familiar OS X installed on a new HFS+ formatted external drive, then option booted from.
This would be faster than waiting for bootable disks to arrive in the mails. One has to use a exteranl drive anyway larger than the drive being recovered to hold all the potential recovered data.

[SOLVED] Please help me fix my website's rendering problem in Firefox.

Hi,
I have a strange rendering inconsistency with my website when viewed in Firefox. When I browse my website locally from the hard disk, it renders correctly as per the Preferences->Contents settings. But when I visit it on the internet server, everything (fonts, images and other objects) look smaller. This difference persits even if I save the index file to disk and then view it locally, that is the downloaded index file looks right even though viewed on the server everything is rendered smaller.
Eventually the problem cleared once I renamed ~/.mozilla so that firefox created a new ~/.mozilla config directory. I setup Preferences again as previously and moved some files from the old .mozilla to the new one, looking for a possible culprit but the problem did not reappear. I also tried removing various files from the old .mozilla, clearing the cache etc but the problem persisted.
So, my conclusion, something was wrong in some file in the original ~/.mozilla. I would have liked to find out what, but anyhow, its now rendering local/remote pages identically. :-)
My thanks for the help/suggestions.
Last edited by neok (2008-11-05 06:30:30)

hi neok,
looks like the only difference is font size. when it comes to trying to keep everything uniform across browsers, you're probably best to use a bit of CSS to tell the page the font sizes. If you don't have a stylesheet set up you can add a bit of code into you <head>:
<style type="text/css">
body { font: 14px arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; }
</style>
or change the values to the size you want default text to be. If you want to keep it as times (serif) instead, you can change it to:
<style type="text/css">
body { font: 14px 'times new roman', georgia, times, serif; }
</style>
Georgia looks much nicer than times or times new roman on screen, and as for linux alternatives, you can probably specify any you prefer, just make sure they're inside quote marks as i've done times new roman.
hope this helps.

SAP permanent license getting changed to temporary

Hello experts,
I am on SAP CRM ABAP 7.0 (Kernel release 701). I am facing a strange problem with respect to sap license. Last week we have installed a permanent license as lots of jobs were failing and it showed type "Perm" in transaction "slicence" with exp date "31.12.9999" corresponding to active hardware key. Bur surprisingly however it changed back to type "Temp" after a while with retention of 1 month.
And today morning it showed a "Valid From" as the date of last restart.
As of now we have installed the permanent license but we fear that it might again get changed to "Temp" after a while or during next restart.
Did any of you faced this earlier and if yes what is the exact cause and solution of this?
Regards
Sourabh Majumdar

Especially linux servers are known for changing hardware keys along with the MAC address. If you have linux you might want to read note [1178686 - Linux: Alternative method to generate an SAP hardware key|https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1178686]
Check in SLICENSE if your license entry is displayed with blue characters, this would be the active license. If it is black, then the license is for another hardware key.
Cheers Michael

Question: What is the best platform to run exe files? Wine,Cedega,etc.

I've tryed Wine it takes alot of configuration that I'm not to familiar with. I would love to order a commercial version but my credit is shot for ordering software threw the internet. I wish there was a software store in my mall besides the usual stores. There's not enough support out there for Linux. Is there any good websites that describe the best way to run wine or cause I want to utilize my programs and not just my games.

I've tried both CX office and Cedega, but I don't like that much GUI help...
I prefer the raw wine configuration via regedit and winecfg, also wine is getting better and the configuration method are not that hard.
BTW the apps mentioned by thayer also work flawless under wine
Also if I need application, for which I have no linux alternative, and there is no way to run it with wine (like blizzard torrent file downloader, that Blizzard use when they release something new free for download and didn't run well on 0.9.45 (fixed now, though) I use Vbox)
Last edited by Dheart (2007-12-18 20:33:19)

Substituting VPN-1 SecureClient with OpenVPN

Hello,
my employer is using VPN-1 SecureClient (windows version of course ) to give us remote access to company intranet. I was just thinking about trying to use OpenVPN from my home linux box and see if I can connect there (this would allow me to try replacing various apps with linux alternatives and see if the m$ dungeons can be escaped...). I'm not much into this kind of security stuff, so I was not able to find much on Google. Doesn't seem like people would be caring that much about using alternatives...
I was wondering if someone has success stories replacing SecureClient with opensource alternatives? I'd be interesting in hearing that. Of course much of doing something is knowing which protocol/configuration is our client software using, but all I know at this point is we use PKI tokens, enter PIN code and it connects. I can't do much more than just make screenshots of the few configuration tabs from the program settings dialog...
I think some smaller external companies and their people woud be interested to hear this too, since I've seen most of them use windows run inside virtual machines to connect anyways...
Thanks,
David

Thank you Octavian!
I was using send-keys but with "Inject directly into control".
The problems is that VPN application password fields not working with "Inject directly into control" and also needed delay between fields as you said.
I had this:
Username/ID -> 1370
[Tab]
Password -> 1369
and the solutions is:
[Set Focus: 1370]
[Delay: 1s]
Username/ID
[Delay: 1s]
[Tab]
[Delay: 1s]
Password
[Delay: 1s]
[Enter]
Bye

[SOLVED] Custom Copy & Paste Keyboard Shortcuts in Gnome3

I'm looking for a way to make custom keyboard shortcuts in for the copy and paste functions. Specifically, I want F1 to be Copy. F2 to be Paste.
(In the future, I'd love to be able to do more, like Find, Cut, adding in frequently used text phrases via one keyboard combo ... in ANY application.)
Why? Because I use a different keyboard layout, Dvorak. I'm sure other layouts have similar problems. The Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V are all of a sudden two handed operations. Slows me down. I need a non-mouse (I'm aware of the middle-click option), one handed operation solution.
There's a solution I found for Windows, AutoHotkey. Lets me do this. No Linux alternative as far as I was able to find. The options in the System Settings for Keyboard shortcuts do not include the Copy, Paste, etc functions. I also tried xclip. Works for copy. Just not paste. I can't get it to paste into any X app. I've used every variation of xclip -o I could. It appears that xclip isn't made for this. Nor do any of the other clipboard-like packages appear to be for it either.
Any suggestions?
Last edited by HuckleSmothered (2013-01-15 13:29:06)

Found a solution!
xdotool
Nothing else needed. I just set up custom keyboard shortcuts in the Gnome3 system settings that utilize this command. "xdotool key ctrl+v" will paste. I have that set to F2. "xdotool key ctrl+c" set to F1.
It can type preset text as well, which I use a lot at work (not so much at home). " xdotool type "Hello world!" "

Arch workflow design advice for a designer?

Sorry for the ambiguous title, I couldn't figure out what to call this post.
I'm new to Arch, though not Linux, and I must say, this is an amazing distro (I'm on the 64bit version). Dead simple, super fast, and nearly as flexible as a Gentoo system (that can use binaries!). Pacman is rockin'.
I'm a designer by trade: Web, video, and image. And I STILL boot into Windows for important tasks like Flash work, video work, and ftp work. I would obviously like to reduce that dependency, though there is little hope in the video department, right now.
But for web, I see no reason I couldn't do it all in linux. But I'm not sure how to go about it. Here is the workflow I need, and I was wondering if you could advise how I might set up such a system (I have just a base system with Gnome installed right now):
* WYSIWYG html and CSS editting (NVU/Kompose is fine for html, but NOT for CSS) for the design phase
* A way to output image slices with html (does GIMP do this?)
* Accurate web fonts
* Reliable ftp, preferably one with drag n' drop functionality (I use filezilla on Windows, but I think the linux version lacks the drag n' drop)
It's not a real complicated workflow, I just need to save time wherever possible because I need to work very fast. In windows, it's like having a ball and chain strapped to your leg, but it does work. With linux, I will very much appreciate access to terminal and file management advantages.
I'm not stuck on Gnome, I just like the simplicity. I'm mainly interested in speed and efficiency (NOTE efficiency... I like time savers and fluxbox always seems to add clicks to my tasks). Let me know what you think! I may be able to move my flash work over with a little help from VirtualBox too, but I think I'm stuck when it comes to video . Thanks for any advice you might have!

No offense, but using WYSIWYG to design web pages doesn't sound very professional imo. They just don't offer the control that one would want with the code. I have tried a few (Frontpage, Dreamweaver, NVU, Bluefish, ...) and they all suck. They just don't do what you want it to. You drag something or add some formatting and it just messes up the code. It's better to just use a text editor and view the results in browser. Maybe that's slow or inefficient for you, but I find that's the best way to do it.
As for image slicing, I find that annoying as well. In Photoshop I never really liked the way it worked. I sliced a few images and then trashed most of the others. I tend to go for simple designs and focus on making it mostly CSS, so when I slice images it's usually a 1px wide/high gradient which would get repeated. I don't need image slicing for that. As for graphic intensive sites... well... really, you should review that. People still have slow connections and having a lot of graphics is just bad, even if your client wants it. You might as well go with flash, and waste some more bandwidth
If you really want to do it though, I think Inkscape is quite a nice tool. I do all my designing in it, and though I don't use slicing, you can do it quite easily (though it's a bit hackish) by adding a layer and creating transparent rectangles around the stuff you want, then just select the rectangle and export it. I'm not sure if there's a more automatic way - there are plenty of tutorials.
The MS-fonts should be fine, I just want to know that I am looking at an accurate representation of what I my windows customers will see.
Fonts won't help you much there. You know most people use IE, so you need to view the website in IE regardless, and that means you need Windows (I think wine uses some weird IE version which uses gecko). Maybe there's some good Linux alternative for viewing stuff in IE, but I just view it on Windows. Also the font shouldn't change the general layout of the site... I don't see how that would be a problem unless it's some weird font that not everyone has, in which case you'd use @font-face anyway...

Upcoming issues for secure boot and arch installs

I came across this rather worrying article indicating that when Microsoft starts approving hardware for Window 10 machines they may not allow secure boot to be turned off, and thereby make it very difficult for users to install arch on such a machine unless it can be booted using secure boot:
http://arstechnica.com/information-tech … a-reality/
I suppose at some point there will need to be a method of getting the appropriate certificates for arch to allow booting on machines using secure boot.

mcloaked wrote:
mychris wrote:
I've heard the systemd guys are working on integrating secure boot with systemd and gummiboot. So you might be able to sign everything yourself and secureboot your GNU/Linux/Systemd machine.
But currently I don't know anything about it and don't care about it. Like trilby said, if I'm not able to use a specific hardware I will not use it.
Sure I won't buy hardware that I can't install Arch on - but what is a potential problem is if OEMs are forced into only selling locked hardware if they wish to sell it with Windows on it in the future - that would give MS a monopoly position - and for laptops it is not so easy to find hardware that is free of MS apart from a limited range of laptops that have Ubuntu installed when supplied (and of course IOS and chromeos based machines). For desktops it is not too difficult to buy components or barebones systems that you can customise and install whatever you like on - but laptops don't generally fall into that option range. I do have to keep Windows for some tasks that it is close to impossible to do without Windows (like satnav updates for example) though it principle a VM could be used with Windows on it. It is a shame that for this kind of task there isn't a linux alternative that avoids Windows altogether! It would be nice to find barebones laptops that you can install any OS of choice on with none on the machine at the time of purchase.
I know this argument was discussed at length before Secure Boot appeared in the machines that are on the market now - and at the time I thought that the basic principle of not having one O/S manufacturer monopolising the market and excluding other O/Ses had been established and expected to continue along this path - but the news item indicates that a significant departure from that policy may now take place over the next year or two. Giving users the option to disable Secure Boot has no impact on the security of the Windows O/S on a particular machine unless the user actively disables it but that should remain the user's choice. The only reason to lock down the BIOS in this way is to attempt to close off competition to Windows. In a true free market there should be hardware that is not so locked - or at least have as much choice of hardware that is not incumbent on control from MS. There are worries that the BIOS is vulnerable to firmware hacking but that could in principle happen even if the Secure Boot option is designed to have no user control to turn it off. Maybe devices that will re-flash the BIOS with one that does allow Secure Boot will be developed - I seem to remember that some machines are "operated on" during delivery to customers in that kind of way to install firmware components that are not in place at manufacture - so that kind of technology already exists.
It will no doubt be interesting to see how this plays out over the next couple of years.
Edit: I guess if it comes to the crunch that people will start to play with the information such as at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Un … ecure_Boot
I've tried using VB as a PXE client for Arch, and VB keeps blowing up. It's better if you just run it straight.

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