[lotuseclat79]

In a forum post on zdnet, a user explains why Linux cannot run on a computer without Windows. Very funny to read: Why Linux will not displace Windows.

-- Tom

[TRS-80 vet]

???

Linux has its own kernel. It does not use the windows kernel. Right?

Maybe he says that thinking of a dual load machine, where windows gets cylinder priority in master partition table?

[lotuseclat79]

Linux is a kernel, a separate and distinctly different (more reliable) OS kernel than any Windows kernel IMHO, and no it does not use remnants of any Windows kernels. Different OS internel components alltogether! Different file systems, different device drivers, different commands, different applications - btw, that can do what Windows does with better stabililty, reliability and performance without all of the security handicaps of a Windows system.

The person in question simply lives in a Windows only world and has been brainwashed by M$! I'm sure they don't know very much at all about dual-boot (what makes you think that partition tables are always built the way you assume them to be, i.e. cylinder priority to Windows rather than Unix or Linux OSes?). Granted, its a common layout, but not the only way to do it!

-- Tom

[briealeida]

Albeit ignorant, that was very funny to read. Especially the part about $9 billion invested in Vista. Wow. I'm definitely bookmarking that. lol.