November 22nd, 2009 at 04:17pm
Under Advocacy
As I suspected, after a positive article on openSUSE’s support for Trusted Computing, the backlash has come from the charmingly-entitled Boycott Novell blog. SUSE is sponsored by Novell, so given the name of the blog and the nature of the more ardent free software promoters it’s not surprising when they say things like: Summary: TPM [...]
Continue Reading SUSE Linux is stealing your rights!
Tags: linux, opensuse
By Ken Y-N
November 19th, 2009 at 12:30pm
Under Advocacy
The article in question on Reporting the World Over covers openSUSE’s support for the TPM and the OpenTC project. The openSUSE aspect is covered by this quote: “openSUSE is now the first operating system to offer full TC support,” Petautschnig notes. “Until now, TC had been implemented for specific applications, such as Microsoft’s BitLocker hard [...]
Continue Reading Surprisingly, but also pleasantly, positive article about Trusted Computing and Linux
Tags: opensuse, opentc
By Ken Y-N