You misunderstand. Authorization by signature, you mentioned here, just Secure Boot, which can be disabled, and not yet on the market, while uefi already here more than 2years. Check theme, about uefi driver on this board.

Do you believe that x86 may become a thing of the past (not necessarily completely deprecated) in the next decade or so? Could ARM possibily be the next mainstream?

newport wrote:

Do you believe that x86 may become a thing of the past (not necessarily completely deprecated) in the next decade or so? Could ARM possibily be the next mainstream?

I don't think so. ARM architecture was made for portable computer (smartphones & tablets) with focus at power consumption. Could be a candidate for subnotebooks as well but when you need real power, fast data transfers, PCI-e 3.0, USB 3.0, and so on and using fast graphic cards to play games like Max Payne 3 or similar, use of high resolution screens and desktops I wouldn't expect to see an ARM processor in powerful desktop machines.

Okay you never know but in the next years x86 and AMD will be most sold processors for classic PCs.

I disagree, i am not saying x86 will die over night, but in 5 years time most homes will not have a x86 in them, unless its a number of years old.

Futhermore, most x86 CPUs will be with additional ARM cores (at least AMD, but i think Intel too) http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/13/amd-arm-security/

Dex4u wrote:

I disagree, i am not saying x86 will die over night, but in 5 years time most homes will not have a x86 in them, unless its a number of years old.

I am not talking about kidding home user spending the whole day in facebook or youtube.
It may be, that ARM is available in tablets and smartphones but you won't see them in server hardware or most office computers. Maybe for secretaries only.

Look at this list and try to find any supercomputer based on ARM
http://i.top500.org/sublist

There are plenty of smart phones out there that could use a good OS.

You misunderstand again. ARM will be embedded in CPU crystal, like e.g. memory controller/northbridge stuff/gpu already. So x86 will be more SoC again.

You seem to have mist the point of this topic, we are talking hobby OS Dev's .
No one is going to test your hobby OS on a supper computer or main server.
How many home will need a supper computer ?.

i am not saying x86 will die over night, but in 5 years time most homes will not have a x86 in them, unless its a number of years old.

Why the hell should the hobby OSes break the domination of Intel in the PC market ?
I didn't catch that point.

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Dex4u wrote:

You seem to have mist the point of this topic, we are talking hobby OS Dev's .
No one is going to test your hobby OS on a supper computer or main server.
How many home will need a supper computer ?.

I did not miss, this was just an example.
Why the hell should the hobby OSes break the domination of Intel in the PC market ?
I didn't catch that point.
Regarding your posting:

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i am not saying x86 will die over night, but in 5 years time most homes will not have a x86 in them, unless its a number of years old.

And if anyone develop a new hobby OS - why should he avoid to run this on a normal PC ? As there are billion of machines running somewhere.