[ale] Check your Lenovos...again

[David Tomaschik]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 6:47 AM, Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Huh. This is pretty interesting.  I wonder what would happen on an
> fdisk-and-clean-install of a Linux system here.  It looks like the code
> which is run from inside the BIOS assumes a Windows install on the
> hard-drive, but from the article I can't tell whether that's the case.
> Presumably those "business-oriented laptops" have UEFI enabled and the BIOS
> locked, so you can't install a non-Microsoft-sanctioned OS on them anyways.
>

I'm not sure about the systems mentioned, but I had no problem installing
Debian testing on the T450s I just got.  So far, everything seems to work
out of the box (modulo installing firmware-iwlwifi and admittedly, I
haven't tested sound yet).


>
> -- CHS
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/lenovo-used-windows-anti-theft-feature-to-install-persistent-crapware/
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