[Gllug] Microsoft admit the existence of Linux!

[Stephen Harker]

Ian Northeast wrote:

> Christopher Hunter wrote:
> 
>> This page gave me a chuckle or two:
>>
>> http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;314458&spid=1173&sid=324
>>
>> It actually recommends booting into Linux to remove it!
> 
> 
> Well this would be because of:
> 
> "There are other utilities that work just as well, such as Fdisk from 
> MS-DOS 5.0 and later"
> 
> Which is a blatant lie. There is a well known problem with MS's fdisk in 
> that it will refuse to remove "non-DOS" partitions from within the 
> extended partition, on the grounds that the extended partition contains 
> no partitions, and then refuse to delete the extended partition because 
> it isn't empty.
> 
> On a (vaguely) related note, another thing gave me a bit of a laugh 
> recently. Once upon a very long time ago, I used to install a very 
> temporary copy of Windows if I was faced with some dodgy hardware I 
> couldn't identify, as it was better than Linux at hardware detection, 
> note down what the hardware was and then blow it away.
> 
> My lodger was just given a laptop by his sister - I can see why. It's a 
> Dell which are mostly OK but this is one of the ultra-thin jobs from 
> about 4 years ago and appears to contain no hardware which isn't dodgy 
> (apart, perhaps, from the Pooh Bear stickers she has decorated it with). 
> She had Windows XP on it and it ran like a dog with no legs. Not 
> surprising with 64MB. So he wanted to put 98 on it, and failed (end user 
> isntallable OS eh?). I offered to do him a nice Debian install with a 
> lightweight WM but he insisted on 98. So to identify the hardware, I 
> booted a Knoppix CD, which got the whole lot straight off and everything 
> worked. I noted down what it all was, and then went into the long trawl 
> for the Win98 drivers for it.
> 
> Got it all working and he broke it 2 weeks later:)

What a happy story.

SH

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