Re: Foxconn Mobos And Linux

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From: Will Kemp
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:55

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Sandgroper wrote:
> Here is an interesting read about Foxconn mobos , it appears that Foxconn 
> have disabled the BIOS to prevent  the running of linux on them.
> 
> http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869249

There's a considerable amount of discussion about it on slashdot, too:

http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/08/07/25/1150218.shtml




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