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- BeOS Demo Video
- Ubuntu Generic vs. Low-Latency Linux Kernel Benchmarks for HPC and Desktop
- Saving Linux
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Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste
You can use Rufus: https://rufus.ie/en/
To modify the ISO to turn off hardware check and TPM support for Windows 11 to install it on an unsupported PC.
https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/wiki/FAQ#user-content-Help_...
Besides Linux and BSD Unix there is: https://reactos.org/ https://aros.sourceforge.io/ https://www.haiku-os.org/ and https://www.arcanoae.com/arcaos/
I know some third-world nations still use DOS and the BORLAND DOS compilers because people donate old computers to their nations.
With the right OS, old computers are still usable. Please don't throw them away, e-cycle them so they get used by poor nations that cannot afford new PCs.
- Lightweight Linux Distributions for Older PCs
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Running BeOS 5 in QEMU (i386)
If interested, please take a look at its up-to-date evolution
https://www.haiku-os.org
I tested on real hardware too, and it worked well
- Essence: A desktop OS built from scratch, for control and simplicity
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Here's what your typical Linux system looked like in 2003. We've come so far.
Have you checked out Haiku? It's so delightfully early 2000s.
- Historical workstation desktop interface screenshots
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Geniuses Named this Obtrusive Malware Emulator
Bro you clearly haven't use HaikuOS before.
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- Show HN: Sbctl – Secure Boot key manager
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Show HN: SSH-tpm-agent – SSH agent for TPMs
No, this isn't true nor correct.
Secure Boot and TPM do offer tangible security benefits and is security features you can take ownership of.
Secure Boot allows your own key hierarchy, and TPM allows you to take ownership.
The linked boot disk isn't really proof that Secure Boot is useless. If you don't set a MOKManager password (as you should), and you change the security state of the machine while present at the keyboard. Yes you can boot things.
This is intended to make sure people can actually decide to trust things. And having insecure defaults makes this less useful. Not very surprising.
TPMs could also prevent attacks like this on your machine.
Incidentally I've invested quite a bit of time in making user-friendly Secure Boot tooling as well. https://github.com/Foxboron/sbctl
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Enabling secure boot for your Arch installation is very easy now with the "sbctl" tool
No problem! The sbctl package ships with a pretty extensive hook out of the box (https://github.com/Foxboron/sbctl/blob/master/contrib/pacman/ZZ-sbctl.hook). It's been very reliable for automatically resigning .efi executables after updates for me.
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sbctl fails to find EFI system partition
sbctl verify returns failed to find EFI system partition despite it definitely is there. It's the same issue as this but remounting or restarting doesn't fix it.
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Millions of PC Motherboards Were Sold With a Firmware Backdoor
lol
- The vendor-locking is for your own safety. Do not resist.
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Let's make a motherboard review guide
Must actually prevent unsigned images from booting
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[Kinoite/Silverblue]Decrypt LUKS volumes with a TPM on Fedora 35+
sudo dnf install asciidoc golang -y VERSION=0.11 cd /tmp curl -L "https://github.com/Foxboron/sbctl/releases/download/${VERSION}/sbctl-${VERSION}.tar.gz" | tar zxvf - cd "sbctl-${VERSION}" make sudo make install cd ~
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Setting up secure boot while dual booting Windows 11 and Arch Linux
By far the easiest is to use sbctl to generate, install and use keys to sign your efi images. You can use mkinitcpio to build the unified kernels automatically and a pacman trigger to rerun the sbctl signing when the kernel is updated. Pretty straightforward (once you've done it once).
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Intel OEM Private Key Leak: A Blow to UEFI Secure Boot Security
The question is whether you have any UEFI drivers or not. If they're in the ESP you can just look there to check, but UEFI drivers can also be loaded from PCI cards or baked in the firmware itself.
If you're using a TPM for Secure Boot, you can use the command in https://github.com/Foxboron/sbctl/wiki/FAQ#option-rom to know for sure.
What are some alternatives?
zzzfm
mortar - Framework to join Linux's physical security bricks.
awesome - A curated list of awesome projects
mkinitcpio - Arch Linux initramfs generation tools (read-only mirror)
Platform - Qbix Platform for powering Social Apps (http://qbix.com/platform)
zorin-exec-guard - Zorin Exec Guard shows a warning when attempting to run unknown Linux or Windows executables and offers more trusted alternatives.
v2os - V2_OS - The V2_ Operating System. 100% 32 bit assembly code
cryptboot - Encrypted boot partition manager with UEFI Secure Boot support
serenity - The Serenity Operating System 🐞
mainline - Install mainline kernel packages from kernel.ubuntu.com
kush-os - the kool useful system helper – a from-scratch hobby OS written in C++20
simple-arch-installer