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Re: Vista SP1 won't install on dual-boot systems: Microsoft

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:31:09 +0000, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Thursday 31 July 2008 19:44 : \____

>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
>> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>  wrote
>> on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:32:58 +0000
>> <2067602.OuEOE9A3ty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>
>>> ____/ AZ Nomad on Thursday 31 July 2008 17:23 : \____
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:13:12 -0500, chrisv <chrisv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>>><Quote>
>>>>>> Are you currently running Windows and Linux in a dual-boot setup?
>>>>>>You're going to have major headaches with Vista SP1, Microsoft has
>>>>>>admitted.
>>>>>></Quote>
>>>> 
>>>>>M$ evil at it's finest.
>>>> 
>>>> At one point in the 90's, I dual booted win95 and OS/2.  I discovered
>>>> that my OS/2 system was a hell of a lot more reliable when I didn't
>>>> use win95.  The win95 had a habbit of randomly corrupting the OS/2
>>>> partition.
>>>
>>> Won't be done until <put "F* kill" product here> won't run.
>>>
>>> They do this to Google...
>>>
>>> They do this to OOo (with 'new' formats)...
>>>
>>> They do this to Free Software...
>>>
>>> VMWare...
>> 
>> Shooting themselves in the foot with respect to the
>> sophisticated cognoscenti, though the Average Joe
>> (Homeowner or BusinessPerson) might not care all that much
>> as long as his "majikthingy" works.
>> 
>> [.sigsnip]

>It harms their public image, that's for sure. That's why more and more
>sysadmins adopt an "everything but Microsoft" policy.

I've been unable to avoid some microsoft software, but I run what I have to in
vmware sessions and at as early an OS release as possible.  My printer software
runs in a win2k vmware session (w/ gsprint/ghostview/ghostprint) and my vmware
session for work is used mostly to run outlook in a winxp session.   *Nothing*
of value is stored in a windows file system.  It all ends on my linux or solaris
boxes via samba or nfs, or even vpn'd to a file server at work.  When the
windows vmware session gets corrupted as is inevitable in all windows
instalations, I simply revert to a known good snapshot.


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