[Mageia-dev] Mageia 3 feature proposals review

[David Walser]

Thomas Backlund wrote:
> Related to this:
> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:Grub2AsDefault
> 
> We have one other problem at our hands...
> 
> That is supporting (or not) the SecureBoot that upcoming Windows 8 will 
> require.
> 
> Fedora plans are here:
> http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html?style=light
> 
> Ubuntu plans are here:
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-June/035445.html

Interesting.  So the main reason people have complained about us not using GRUB2 is poor interaction 
when trying to dual boot with other distros that do use it, namely Ubuntu.  If Ubuntu isn't going to 
use it by default, is it really mandatory that we switch to it?