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Monday, July 28th, 2008

Security challenges with Virtualisation

Interesting quote: “You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a worldwide collection of software engineers who can’t write operating systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes.” — Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD) God bless the Windows sysadmins 🙂

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Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Foxconn deliberately sabotaging their BIOS to destroy Linux?

If you are planning on buying a motherboard to run Linux, beware. Before you choose Foxconn, do check with them about this. From their article it implies that their BIOS is having code that will work perfectly fine with Windows but will crash Linux. Read more on Digg.

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