If he was trying to promote Linux (he obviously was not) he could have said that the Distro could be obtained very cheaply and it could be installed as a dual-boot system thereby allowing a user to try it with little risk. I would guess that is how many of us started with Linux.
Regards, Robert Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windscreen. -----Original Message----- From: Chris Bayley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 27 February 2004 11:53 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: National Radio, 11am, item on OSS Pretty good review od OSS by and large - apart from the part about about it automatically wiping out windows! Does Red Hat do this? I haven't installed it for a long time, but I know the last couple of time I installed mandrake it always set up my machine for dual boot, and understand it even shrinks an NTFS partition to acheiive the same now. Course with gentoo you can do whatever you want ; ) /chris Jason Greenwood wrote: > Cheers! =) Tuned in now... > > Linux Shop wrote: > >> On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 11:20, Jason Greenwood wrote: >> >>> Ok, what's the station/frequency/FM/AM?? >> >> >> >> Nationwide tuning details at: >> >> http://www.radionz.co.nz/index.php?nav=1§ion=tune#freq >> >> >> >>> Linux Shop wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 09:17, Timothy Musson wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Just heard that there'll be a short item about Open Source >>>>> software on >>>>> National Radio this morning, at 11am. Not 100% sure I heard right, >>>>> so it >>>>> might pay to tune in a little earlier (say, 10:45am) if you're >>>>> interested. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> 11.30 am, Linda Clark is talking to Paul Reynolds? who is going to >>>> talk >>>> about "Open Sourced Software" and will give us some links to look >>>> at in >>>> the weekend :) >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------ www.linuxshop.co.nz ------------------ >>>> Daniel Robertson >>>> Linux Shop Ltd >>>> P O Box 108001, Symonds St, Auckland 1035 >>>> ------------------ www.linuxshop.co.nz ------------------ >>>> >>>> >>>> >> >> >> >> >
