Timely_Jellyfish_2077@programming.dev to Linux@lemmy.ml · edit-24 days agoHow would Linux have been today if locked bootloaders were as common in the 90s as they are now on ARM devices?message-squaremessage-square55fedilinkarrow-up1166arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1165arrow-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-24 days agomessage-square55fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarewildbus8979@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-23 days 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.
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.