Timely_Jellyfish_2077@programming.dev to Linux@lemmy.ml · edit-21 month agoHow would Linux have been today if locked bootloaders were as common in the 90s as they are now on ARM devices?message-squaremessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up1158file-text
arrow-up1158message-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 month agomessage-square40fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarewildbus8979@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 month agoI know. At the time of the ACPI debacle, Mac OS X didn’t exist yet, and NeXT was essentially irrelevant because a) it didn’t run x86 and b) it only ran on proprietary hardware.
minus-squarewildbus8979@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·27 days agoYes but that’s completely irrelevant to the original point.
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I know. At the time of the ACPI debacle, Mac OS X didn’t exist yet, and NeXT was essentially irrelevant because a) it didn’t run x86 and b) it only ran on proprietary hardware.
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Yes but that’s completely irrelevant to the original point.
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