It will probably still be possible to put in a second drive and dual boot into linux. Someone will have checked it out by now.
Just as an aside. Have you noticed how in text mode "XP" looks like a smiley for someone dead or dying. Elmer Fudd's advice to M$ "Be wery wery carefull - he he he". Derek Jennings wrote: > > Very interesting article.... > > It occurs to me that since so few PC's are sold with Linux preloaded, and > new XP computers will have their discs formatted in NTFS, within 2 > or 3 years Linux will be squeezed out. Consumers will be unable to try out > Linux even if they wanted to. Most people are not going to risk losing their > windows data by having to reformat their entire disc, and may be worried by > Microsofts product activation policy, that they might not be able to go back > to windows again without a severe hassle if they were to try it. > > I'm sure there are good technical reasons why NTFS is used by XP instead of > FAT32, but its jolly convenient for Bill that a by effect is to shut out the > last remaining competion on the x86 desktop. > > Derek > > On Thursday 25 October 2001 6:39 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > Here are some interesting articles I found regarding Microsoft's misuse of > > monopoly power: > > > > http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1115/byt20010824s0001/ > > http://www.infoanarchy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/10/23/17629/221 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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