>
> Just received this from Linux Planet and it shows that that the
> Microsoft leopard hasn't changed it's spots as a result of the Y2K
> bug. Still trying to FUD it out.
>
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>
> In a weirdly phrased technical posting from Support Services,
> Microsoft
> insinuates-but doesn't come right out and say-that if you want to run
> the upcoming Windows 2000, you'll need to delete Linux from your PC.
> To
> quote:
>
> "The partition types used by the Linux and Windows operating systems
> are
> incompatible. To remove Linux from your computer and install Windows
> 2000 or Windows NT, you must manually delete the partition used by the
> Linux operating system. The Windows compatible partition can be
> created
> automatically during the installation of the Windows operating
> system."
>
> This is utter nonsense. The partition types used by Linux and Windows
> are different, not incompatible: both types can coexist quite nicely
> on
> the same machine. If you're currently running a machine that has any
> version of Windows on one partition and Linux on another partition,
> you
> can overwrite the Windows partition when installing Windows 2000 and
> just leave the Linux partition alone. (This is exactly what was done
> in
> the LinuxPlanet offices, where a machine with both Windows NT 4.0 and
> Slackware Linux 7 was upgraded to machine running both a beta version
> of
> Windows 2000 and Slackware Linux 7.) These operating systems coexist
> quite nicely. The one thing to watch that is Windows 2000 likes to
> take
> over the PC's master boot record and displace LILO, but a
> reinstallation
> of LILO after Windows 2000 is configured addresses that issue.
>
> Is Linux such a threat to the big, bad monopoly that Microsoft must
> resort to out-and-out deception to battle the inevitable? Has our
> rag-tag army of open-source evangelists and penguinistas managed to do
> what the U.S. Justice Department, a sea of lawyers and the full force
> of
> the U.S. government failed to do: bring down the Evil Empire of
> Redmond?
> Apparently so. This technical posting from Microsoft reeks of fear.
>
> And to make things worse, Microsoft botched the instructions on
> removing
> Linux from a PC in favor of Windows! If you do indeed want to replace
> Linux with Windows 2000, there's no reason to go through the rigmarole
> of removing Linux partitions and rewriting the master block record
> with
> LILO-Windows 2000 does these things automatically. Misinformation is
> one
> thing, but technically incorrect misinformation is another.
>
> Fear, uncertainty, doubt...and misinformation-what we've come to
> expect
> from Microsoft. This time, the penguins will not go quietly.
>
> --Kevin Reichard
> Managing Editor
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