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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 FatPhil on Monday November 12 2018, @08:59PM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> 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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