[Klug-general] Linux and Vista

[Michael. E. Rentell]

I'm not sure what I mean either. But PC-Plus had a big splash about 
Vista this month (of course) and one of the points is that it has much 
more in the way of registration than XP had. Apparently it checks back 
with the original registration on a regular basis just to convince 
itself that it is still on the same machine and hasn't been ported to 
another one illegally.

My question is to ask whether anyone has successfully added a Linux 
partition to a Vista machine without triggering this activity. And also 
what does 'this activity' actually do if Vista decides that it doesn't 
like the host any more.

I'd really like a new 64bit machine, unfortunately I need Windows for a 
bit longer and I don't want MS to kill my added Linux installation.

Does that make more sense? Sorry if I was a bit dense previously.

Also, I've posted my response above Alan's query. Is that considered bad 
netiquette? That was new to me when I saw a flame here the other day. I 
will try and change that practice if folks feel aggrieved.

Mike R
in Folkestone

Alan Pope wrote:
 > On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 11:30:23AM +0000, Michael. E. Rentell wrote:
 >> 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.
 >>
 >
 > Not sure I fully understand you there. Are you indicating that Vista 
calls home and tells microsoft if you
 > install other software?
 >
 > I have never heard of this and would not immediately believe it if I did.
 >
 > Cheers,
 > Al.
 >
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