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bitcracker on May 29, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Secure Boot isn't the only problem facing Linux on...

I still don't get it. Microsoft is not that important anymore today as it had been for decades. There are extremely cheap ARM boards (Raspberry, Beagle Bone, etc.) that are almost suitable for Internet and Office applications right now. And I think soon we will have the next generation of Raspberry and Beagle Bones with 1.5 GHz dualcore or quadcore, and we can even built our own cluster of these boards for servers -- for instance, this one with 32 nodes:

http://t3n.de/news/raspberry-pi-cluster-467237/

mjg59 on May 29, 2013 [–]

What use is a Pi when I'm sitting on a plane?

bitcracker on May 29, 2013 | [–]

That's your reason to buy a WinRT pad and put Linux on it?

mjg59 on May 29, 2013 | | [–]

It's my reason for owning a laptop that came with Windows 8. This particular one isn't affected by the problem discussed here, but many other laptops are.

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