On Saturday 08 December 2001 01:07 am, you wrote:

> I've had similar experiences. It never ceases to amaze me how well the
> kernel picks up on new hardware and just says "Let's go !". My
> girlfriend's dual boot box was a good example. We swapped out one MB
> with a Pent. 150 for a new Soyo with a PII 450. Linux just kinda said
> "900 bogomips let's rock" and fired right up without any changes at all.
> The Winblows(tm) side freaked out, went into safe mode and tried to
> install new drivers, one after the other while requiring a reboot each
> time. After 10 or 12 reboots, it was just frozen completely and we had
> to wipe the Winblows(tm) side of the drive clean and re-install.....
> Sooo typical.

Just wait until people get into the entertainment of doing major upgrades 
with XP and having to go through the activation crap.  That's of course after 
getting XP to accept the new upgrades.


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