How I installed Fedora 18 with UEFI Secure Boot
Here's my experience of installing Fedora 18 with UEFI Secure Boot - and why the much-maligned anaconda installer is not as bad as a lot of people think.
Jamie's Mostly Linux Stuff
Various thoughts and adventures, including but not limited to Linux, assorted bits of hardware new and old, and occasionally Windows XP/Vista/7.
J.A. Watson
I started working with what we called "analog computers" in aircraft maintenance with the United States Air Force in 1970. After finishing military service and returning to university, I was introduced to microprocessors and machine language programming on Intel 4040 processors. After that I also worked on, operated and programmed Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-8, PDP-11 (/45 and /70) and VAX minicomputers. I was involved with the first wave of Unix-based microcomputers, in the early '80s. I have been working in software development, operation, installation and support since then.
Latest Posts
Installing OpenSuSE on my netbook - how I did it
A step-by-step screenshot walk-through of how I installed Linux on a system with UEFI BIOS and Secure Boot.
The never-ending saga of EFI Boot and GPT partitioning
My previous post on LMDE uncovered a lot of confusion. Here's an explanation of how to get around the problems.
A look at Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 201303
Here's what you need to know and the latest LMDE roll-up release, and where you need to pay attention.
Swapping Windows 8 for Linux Mint, openSuSE, and Fedora on my new netbook
I've just bought a new Aspire One 725 Acer sub-notebook/netbook - here's my take and my adventures loading it with three different flavours of Linux.
OpenSuSE 12.3: In-depth and hands-on
A look at the latest release of openSuSE, which is so good I have installed it as the default boot on all of my computers.
UEFI and secure boot in depth
Q&A: My questions on UEFI and secure boot, answered by Mark Doran, the president of the UEFI Forum.
Distro deluge: Six imminent Linux releases previewed
A number of interesting new Linux releases are due out in the next few days or weeks. Here's a quick overview of some of them.
PCLinuxOS quarterly rollup release: Hands on
PCLinux 2013.02 KDE and MiniME are available - here's what to expect
The rEFInd boot loader for UEFI Systems: A life (and sanity) saver
Setting up multi-boot on UEFI-based systems has turned out to be quite an ordeal. Here is what I have learned so far.