Folks, Check out the URL mentioned, but be careful... your sides may hurt badly from laughing too hard... you have been warned!! ROFLMAO!!! --indra ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 22:08:15 -0600 From: James Baughn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [humorix] The Truth About Microsoft Linux The Truth About Microsoft Linux Bernhard Rosenkraenzer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] December 22, 1999 Microsoft accidentally revealed some details about the upcoming top-secret release of Microsoft Linux [Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft. Linux will be a registered trademark of Microsoft as soon as the government accepts the bribes] in an article published on their website: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q247/8/04.ASP?LNG=EN&SA=ALLKB It explains how to remove Linux and install an inferior OS. The article, however, apparently due to incompetence of its writer, reveals some secrets about Microsoft Linux: > The partition types used by the Linux and Windows > operating systems are incompatible Microsoft has added a very valuable patch to the kernel - it has removed support for some inferior technologies (msdos, umsdos, fat, vfat and ntfs filesystems) that bloated the kernel for quite a while. Thank you, Microsoft. It's about time someone dared to do this. > The Linux operating system is generally installed on > partition type 83 (Linux native) or 82 (Linux swap) Microsoft Linux introduces another innovative(tm) technology - the possibility to install the whole system on a swap partition. The Vast Spy Network informs us that this is for FUD purposes ("Linux becomes unstable if you use it with less than 64 GB RAM - it will overwrite arbitrary data on your harddisk"). > "Superblock" in Linux terminology means that the Linux > partition should be the active partition Microsoft Linux introduces a new filesystem that doesn't need superblocks anymore (and it's not fat or ntfs - they removed those... Maybe cpmfs?) - but apparently the new filesystem can't be booted from. > Remove native, swap and boot partitions used by Linux Cool - another feature from Microsoft Linux - partition type boot (type b0). What's it for? dd if=vmlinux of=/dev/hda1? > Insert either a bootable floppy disk or a bootable CD-ROM > for the Linux operating system on your computer, and then > press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to restart your computer. [...] To > remove LILO, type fdisk /mbr at the command prompt, and > then press ENTER. Well, I just got "Unable to open /mbr" when trying this on Red Hat Linux - seems Microsoft indeed ported Microsoft fdisk to Linux! Is it GPL? Where can I download it? And why would I want to? Microsoft is rather good at throwing up interesting questions lately. > Also, Linux recognizes more than 40 different partition > types "More than 40" is a nice way to put "about 100 last time I checked". I wonder if they'll advertise that Windows 2000 can make use of more than 10 kB RAM. - Humorix: Linux and Open Source(nontm) on a lighter note Archive: http://humbolt.nl.linux.org/lists/ Web site: http://www.i-want-a-website.com/about-linux/ -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html
