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Apple's T2 Security Chip Prevents Linux From Installing on New Macs

posted by chromas on Monday November 12 2018, @02:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the apple-is-now-dead-to-me dept.

Subsentient writes:

Apple's MacBook Pro laptops have become increasingly unfriendly with Linux in recent years [...] But now with the latest Mac Mini systems employing Apple's T2 security chip, they too are likely to crush any Linux dreams.

At least until further notice, these new Apple systems sporting the T2 chip will not be able to boot Linux operating systems.

[...] By default, Microsoft Windows isn't even bootable on the new Apple systems until enabling support for Windows via the Boot Camp Assistant macOS software.

From Phoronix.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Pino P on Monday November 12 2018, @02:03PM

    by Pino P (4721) on Monday November 12 2018, @02:03PM (#760907) Journal

    On a machine with a given amount of RAM

    I read that as "insufficient RAM" :)

    By that definition, there's a sentiment across certain forums that affordable Macs ship with insufficient RAM. One of the costs that T2 imposes on many is the price of Apple's RAM upgrade.

    For example, on this particular issue, OSX vmware has long supported USB 2.0, with USB 2.0 speeds proportional to the available CPU power applied, and OSX parallels supports USB 3, same conditions.

    In other words, another of the costs that T2 imposes on many is the price of a license of proprietary VM software.

    if GPU performance is what you're after, you don't want Mac hardware at all

    Say an application developer is using a Mac to test an application that he or she plans to make available for macOS and Linux. In a case like this, performance on par with a low-end PC is fine, so long as what is fast in the VM is also fast on metal, and what is slow in the VM is also slow on metal. But I haven't seen evidence that a VM offers even this.

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