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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: 2) by rleigh on Monday November 12 2018, @07:27AM (3 children)

    by rleigh (4887) on Monday November 12 2018, @07:27AM (#760829) Homepage

    Back then, with OpenFirmware, it was one of the most open platforms around.

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday November 12 2018, @12:20PM (2 children)

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Monday November 12 2018, @12:20PM (#760879) Homepage
    Back then, it was a windfarm...

    (Some Apple PPCs had a shitty linux driver which couldn't understand the hardware thermal protection mechanisms (blame proprietory hardware?), so defaulted to "all fans to max". The driver was even called "windfarm" because of this "feature": https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/diff/?id=b55fafc5a800f27beedfdcf8bd1b6baa47e769a9 )
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    • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday November 12 2018, @01:17PM (1 child)

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday November 12 2018, @01:17PM (#760894)

      I'm talking about just barely not quite that far "back there" when they switched off of PPC to Intel.

      The early Intel Mac Pros could still qualify as wind-farm-suckers, they'd spin their fans up to "screech and scream" at the slightest provocation, and it didn't take too many Mac Pros running Monte Carlo to suck down the full output of a 1.5MW wind driven generator, our resident genius thought he had an application requiring 50 Mac Pros... that's a lot of CO2 emission.

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      • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday November 12 2018, @08:59PM

        by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Monday November 12 2018, @08:59PM (#761042) Homepage
        Yup, I got my Dual G5 - for number crunching - just before they flipped. For the couple of years I just ran the box in OSX, as I just SSH-ed in to run my crunching, never turning the monitor on to use the point-and-drool interface. Despite saturating every pipeline of the processor, the code never really caused OSX to spin up the wind farm, which means that those buggers must have been massively over-specced, or they expected people to be placing the boxes right against a wall, or something.
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