__/ [ John Locke ] on Sunday 03 June 2007 16:21 \__
> On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 15:28:20 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Ubuntu's Feisty
>
>>| This evening I took the big plunge: I completely wiped Microsoft
>>| Windows XP off my 2003 Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop and made it an
>>| Ubuntu linux only machine. Goodbye Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates!
>>| Goodbye! Hello Feisty Fawn, Hello!
>
> Well this sounds good but I wouldn't encourage anyone to simply
> wipe off their OS. How about a dual boot, spare machine or at least
> image the active partition.
>
> I think the move to Linux for most users needs to be a transitional
> process. Just dumping XP might leave some end users in a big
> bind.
Yes, impulse leads to wrong impressions because there's no safety net. Too
much, too fast.
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