POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.off-topic: Linux really costs a _lot_ more than $40: Re: Linux really costs a _lot

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Linux really costs a _lot_ more than $40 : Re: Linux really costs a _lot_ more than $40		Server Time 7 Sep 2024 07:23:32 EDT (-0400)

From: nemesis
Date: 24 Oct 2008 10:13:02
Message: <4901d7ee@news.povray.org>

Jim Henderson escreveu:
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:24:15 -0700, Darren New wrote:
>> So they can't modify
>> the Windows boot menu to accomidate Linux. So they clobber the Windows
>> boot sector with the GRUB boot sector.  Which, honestly, wouldn't be all
>> *that* awful, if they actually followed the rules for booting,which is
>> to say, boot the partition marked "active".  If they did that, you could
>> boot back and forth between Windows and Linux without being at the
>> console.
> 
> Yeah, it's really kinda - well, expected, I guess - that MS behaves that 
> way about how the system boots.  They want to be the only OS there, so 
> they just play like they are.  They should stop doing that, maybe they 
> will with Windows 7?

I'll eat my underwears if they do. :D

Post a reply to this message