Not sure I understand this fully, but I guess a rootkit changes the windows kernel in such a way that the signature becomes invalid, and so the UEFI refuses to load the windows kernel - is that right? So I presume the only way a rootkit can circumvent this is to either not change the kernel, or to re-sign it with the correct key. Have I got this right?

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I'd always assumed Meego had been canned because Elop is a Microsoft Trojan Horse who just wanted to get back into bed with Microsoft and kill anything new, open-source and great. But reading this story of events, I'm quite dismayed to read just how unguided and wasteful the development process apparently was. Even though the final end product (the N9) was terrific, it looks like they only got it properly together when they were told that the project would be canned after the release of the N9. It really does look like a lack of overriding vision and lack of staff working towards a common goal which resulted in the Meego project swimming in circles while the tide took them out.

Going with Microsoft was obviously a bad choice, though. What he needed to do was scrap Symbian, say that Meego would be scrapped after the N9. Pretend to sign a deal with Microsoft. Wait for the greatness that was the N9. Sell the N9. Profit. Develop the N9 to get it to work on LTE., upgrade the processor, memory etc & Profit more...

He also answers this question in Linux Format's current issue (http://www.linuxformat.com/). I don't think he thinks UEFI is much of a threat.

I'm not paid my Linux Format or anything, but I do read it on an irregular basis, and when they interviewed him, they did ask a lot of the above questions. If you find some of the questions aren't answered, it might be worth getting a copy of the magazine to read the interview - it's pretty interesting.

He answered this question in an interview carried out by Linux Format (the current issue) - "I wouldn't change a thing".

http://www.linuxformat.com/

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True, but I rather like Thinkpads.

Me too! But I have icecream.

...too late.

on pages quite often, with the swirly circle turning eternally.

I miss the individual tab processes and fast flash, but otherwise, I'm happier using firefox now.

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Me too - fallback mode seems to have all the advantages of gnome 2 for me.

Using gnome-fallback in Ubuntu 12.04 with their indicator package - I find it has all of the features I loved from gnome 2 - a 'places' menu (a proper one, not the cut-down extension in gnome-shell), and proper workspaces with proper drag-and-drop functionality etc etc. It obviously lacks some of the new and good features of gnome-shell - the type-to-search for applications and windows overview.

It seems to run on gtk3 and gnome3 - so is it a viable alternative to unity/gnome-shell/kde etc?

...my unreplaceable one-of-a-kind Nokia N900 becomes irreparable, to come up with a phone worthy as its successor. It seems pretty solid, so I'll give you a few years. (fingers crossed)

The mobile market definitely needs a full gnu/linux phone. In fact, the N900 follows on from a privileged few mobile devices with desktop-like capability - the psion 3a, psion 5mx, Nokia 9500 communicator, Nokia E90 (only just). And it was only really the Psions that didn't shy from giving you the full OS experience just because it was a mobile device. Why can't my mobile device have a full fledged file-manager with drag-and-drop capability or a desktop where I can place regularly used files as well as applications?

But maybe I'm mad - apparently you don't need these things on the desktop either.

I posted a bit further down my current work-around - gnome-session-fallback is in fact, excellent.

So far, it seems to have all the features of gnome2 in 10.04, and looks just as good.

The only thing is - you need a clean install of 12.04, then add gnome-session-fallback. For some reason, on an upgrade from 11.10, I'm left with a classic gnome that looks a bit botched (odd colours, date/time in the middle etc.).

Maybe this desktop has a future? (PS it also appears to be gnome 3).