Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 11:41:25AM +0200, Aryan Ameri wrote:
> On Saturday 29 March 2003 02:37, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
>
> > -MS Windows controlled BIOS setup (I just found out the new Toshiba laptops
> > have no more "hit <ESC> to enter setup" on boot. It is all handled through
> > Windows utilities written by the vendor)
>
> Oh, This can be the worst news of the day for me. I always thought something
> like this will be impossible.
> Isn't this illegal? If toshiba is doing this, by M$'s request, then it clearly
> is violation of anti trust (or what ever law), right?
Nah, just sounds like stupidity to me. Compaq PCs used to have a
similar thing where they had a "setup partition" that ran some GUIish
DOS-based crap. The system BIOS was just smart enough to look for the
setup partition (which of course had a special ID) when you hit F10 or
whatever. This was the primary reason I swore off Compaq some years
ago.
OTOH I've always hated Toshiba laptops, too :-)
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