Timely_Jellyfish_2077@programming.dev to Linux@lemmy.ml · edit-21 day agoHow would Linux have been today if locked bootloaders were as common in the 90s as they are now on ARM devices?message-squaremessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up1101arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1100arrow-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-21 day agomessage-square33fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarewildbus8979@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up91·24 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-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up11·12 hours agoBtw, in the end, they did this with their office format.
minus-squarenilloc@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·9 hours agoBrowser too, and the whole activeX, and DirectX api system to practically force windows only development.
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 hours agoYeah, same with gaming until Proton came along
minus-squareMwa@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-29 hours agoUnix also including mac and bsds?
minus-squarewildbus8979@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-29 hours agoBSDs mostly, Mac wasn’t a Unix based system at the time. It also didn’t run on x86.
minus-squarenanook@friendica.eskimo.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down5·19 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
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
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.
Ohh
@wildbus8979 @Timely_Jellyfish_2077 youtube.com/watch?v=2DvOTjDmrU…