If your bought and paid for W2K and WXP CD's don't work, you just need to call MS and get a new key.
I recommend Ubuntu or Gentoo. Fedora is molasses-like, even with non-ext3 root partitions. It seems they just use compiler flags that are far too conservative in terms of performance. On 5/22/07, k5mke at bellsouth.net <k5mke at bellsouth.net> wrote: > > Yeah, > > I agree. Say, I happend to LIKE Caldera linux before SCO took over and > screwed it > up. Caldera 2.0 WORKED on my old 486DX33! A pox on SCO and all their > CEO! > May he get 'Rick-uhh-shick-uhh-lite-us" and his "Shrilly-cork" fall off! > (Up to your > OWN dirty mind's interpretation) LOL! > > I have a friend, here in S'port that 'retired' from Western Electric and > was hired by > Microsoft to be some Area Manager. I know for a fact David used to talk > to "Bill" > by 'phone and go up to Redmond on a regular basis. David had since > "retired" > from Microsoft, but still does 'consulting work' for them and other > goverment and > other companies (GM, FORD, etc). He has mentioned that M$ HAS a 'version' > of > LINUX and is just waiting for the time to deploy it. I've known David > some 30 years > and he's never BS'ed me, ever. I just can't get him to 'sneak' me a copy > of XP Pro > or WIN 2K Pro. My bought and paid for CD's no longer work to 'reload' > either sys. > > Oh well, all the MORE reason to learn Fedora 6. ;-) > > > > From: Dustin Puryear <dustin at puryear-it.com> > > Date: 2007/05/22 Tue AM 10:09:30 EDT > > To: general at brlug.net, nolug at nolug.org > > Subject: [brlug-general] OpenOffice virus.. > > > > Anyone heard about the virus for OpenOffice? > > > > http://www.techevangelism.com/2007/05/22/openoffice-has-arrived/ > > > > Oh, and by the way, looks like Microsoft won't be suing Linux any time > > soon. How nice.. ;-) > > > > http://www.techevangelism.com/2007/05/22/microsoft-learns-from-sco/ > > > > -- > > Puryear Information Technology, LLC > > Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 > > http://www.puryear-it.com > > > > Author: > > "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" > > "Spam Fighting and Email Security in the 21st Century" > > > > Download your free copies: > > http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/ebooks/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > General at brlug.net > > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.brlug.net/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20070522/4c61618d/attachment.html
