Timely_Jellyfish_2077@programming.dev to Linux@lemmy.ml · edit-22 years agoHow would Linux have been today if locked bootloaders were as common in the 90s as they are now on ARM devices?message-squaremessage-square57fedilinkarrow-up1168arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1167arrow-down1message-squareHow would Linux have been today if locked bootloaders were as common in the 90s as they are now on ARM devices?Timely_Jellyfish_2077@programming.dev to Linux@lemmy.ml · edit-22 years agomessage-square57fedilinkfile-text
minus-square☂️-@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 years agohere in south america they don’t seem to be locking most of them. granted, not all phones have an active developer porting an os to it.
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-22 years agoMean, so it’s a regional thing. But why do they lock in US and Europe?
minus-square☂️-@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoi know us carriers dont like bootloader unlocking. not sure about europe.
here in south america they don’t seem to be locking most of them.
granted, not all phones have an active developer porting an os to it.
Mean, so it’s a regional thing. But why do they lock in US and Europe?
i know us carriers dont like bootloader unlocking. not sure about europe.