Linked by Howard Fosdick on Thu 6th Dec 2012 05:26 UTC
With computers now shipping with UEFI Secure Boot enabled, users of any OS other than Windows 8 will want to know how to circumvent it. Jesse Smith of DistroWatch tells how he did it here. The Linux Foundation describes its approach here. If you want to boot an OS other than Windows 8, you'll want to figure this out before you buy that new computer.
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That's not really the case, FLOSS also participates in update treadmill, you're expected to run the latest versions (which might not work that well on old hardware).
Firefox even requires more powerful GPUs (for GPGPU use) on Linux than on Windows, for the same effect. Driver situation doesn't help...
Meanwhile Opera (closed software) is lighter, better suited for really old computers. Opera Mini gives good web access to millions of basic feature phones - while Mozilla said, after two abortive attempts, ~"we'll wait for better hardware"