[Klug-general] The boy's new OS and Linux

[Michael. E. Rentell]

Good day all,

I have a mind to upgrade my desktop system and the AMD Athlon 64 
currently offered by Dell attracts.

It comes, of course, with the Boy God's latest vsign operating system 
which, apparently, checks its registered installation parameters on a 
regular basis to prevent its being gnu-d (fat chance) without permission.

Has anyone discovered whether the subsequent installation of a Linux 
partition (I favour Mandriva 64-bit) will cause this feature to trigger 
a refusal to continue?

Unfortunately I have to maintain a small windoze partition because my 
association's accounts program will, so far, only run that way so I need 
it. I'm working with CodeWeavers to get it to go under CrossOverOffice, 
but we are not there yet.

Any views would be welcome.

Mike Rentell
in Folkestone.