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Re: [News] ASUS Motherboards Bypass Windows, Give Huge Boost to GNU/Linux

Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:26:56 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> ASUS' Big Development
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>>| The ASUS sneak attack. The most interesting story the media is
>>| downplaying is the ASUS announcement that it will have a ROM boot chip
>>| on all its motherboards, which will boot Linux instantly on start-up.
>>| When you flick the switch the machine is instantly on. (It's about
>>| time.) Of course, you will have to press another button for the machine
>>| to load Windows.
> 
> More parania from Roy Schestowitz the unemployed "Van Wilder" of
> University of Manchester GB.
> 
> http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/2007/09/roy-schestowitz-liar.html
> 
> Exactly why would the media downplay this?
> 

Micorsoft owns the media...

> For the record, that button to boot Windows had better have an over-ride
> switch because it's going to be used by the average user every single time
> he/she boots their system.
> 
> Virtually nobody other than geeks is going to boot to Linux except maybe
> for diagnostic reasons.
> 
> Asus is sinking their own ship here.
> 

Only "IF" you cant push the button and boot your favorite linux
distribution...


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Jerry McBride (jmcbride@xxxxxxxxxx)

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