{"id":841,"date":"2016-09-21T16:48:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T08:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/?p=841"},"modified":"2016-09-22T09:26:04","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T01:26:04","slug":"beware-windows-10-signature-edition-blocks-installing-linux-fossboss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/beware-windows-10-signature-edition-blocks-installing-linux-fossboss\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware: Windows 10 Signature Edition Blocks Installing Linux \u2013 FossBoss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-competitive practice from Microsoft. Microsoft is apparently pressuring some hardware vendors to <a href=\"http:\/\/fossboss.com\/2016\/09\/21\/windows-10-signature-edition-blocks-installing-linux\/\">lock their BIOS<\/a> to prevent installation of 3rd party OSes including Linux. Someone bought a Yoga 900 ISK2 and found that they can&#8217;t install Linux on it.<\/p>\n<p>Just when you thought Microsoft is turning good &#8211; from all the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/why-microsoft-is-turning-into-an-open-source-company\/\">open-source<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/buildingapps\/2016\/07\/22\/fun-with-the-windows-subsystem-for-linux\/\">Windows Subsystem for Linux<\/a> efforts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fossboss.com\/2016\/09\/21\/windows-10-signature-edition-blocks-installing-linux\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/B7gMpFL.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For you: If you see the \u201cWindows 10 Signature Edition\u201d badge on a laptop, DON\u2019T BUY IT! You may not be able to install Linux (or any OS) on it, and there\u2019s nothing you can do to the machine to change this currently.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/fossboss.com\/2016\/09\/21\/windows-10-signature-edition-blocks-installing-linux\/\">Beware: Windows 10 Signature Edition Blocks Installing Linux \u2013 FossBoss<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Update (2016-09-22): <a href=\"http:\/\/mjg59.dreamwidth.org\/44694.html\">Someone claims<\/a> that the issue is overblown and that Ms isn&#8217;t forcing manufacturers to lock their BIOS. It&#8217;s Lenovo that is mishandling the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2016-09-22): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/article\/lenovo-denies-deliberately-blocking-linux-on-windows-10-pcs\/\">Lenovo denies<\/a> blocking installation of alternate OSes. Well they didn&#8217;t exactly block it. They just didn&#8217;t make it possible. If Lenovo wants to keep its customers happy it should release a BIOS patch that do exactly that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-competitive practice from Microsoft. Microsoft is apparently pressuring some hardware vendors to lock their BIOS to prevent installation of 3rd party OSes including Linux. Someone bought a Yoga 900 ISK2 and found that they can&#8217;t install Linux on it. Just when you thought Microsoft is turning good &#8211; from all the open-source and Windows Subsystem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}