[Ubuntu Chicago] jaunty upgrade broke my laptop :(

[George Lesica]

On the other hand, part of the reason MS doesn't bundle more software
is that the government used that type of software bundling against
them in the anti-trust case. Even bundling IE is highly controversial
and the EU is considering making them totally strip it out.

~ George T. Lesica
glesica at gmail.com



On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Michael McCune <mjmccune at gmail.com> wrote:
> That's the way Windows has always been. It didn't even have a browser
> until Windows 98.
>
> Randall Wilson wrote:
>> Oops. If it's any consolation, it's Windows 7 beta and, although very
>> smooth and nearly as pretty as Jaunty, is totally useless to me except
>> for maybe testing things with IE 8. Did you guys know that a fresh
>> Windows install comes with nothing? I don't have time to sit around all
>> day and download programs from random sites just to make my computer work!
>> :)
>> -Randy
>>
>> Jim Campbell wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Most of Randy's menu.list looked fine, but I would like to point out
>>> what is surely a major error in the file, though:
>>>
>>> # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a
>>> non-linux OS
>>> # on /dev/sda3
>>> title           Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader)
>>> rootnoverify    (hd0,2)
>>> savedefault
>>> makeactive
>>> chainloader     +1
>>>
>>> Surely this entry should be removed from the system, as it may provide
>>> a backdoor for trojans and viruses of all kinds.  :-)
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Ubuntu-us-chicago mailing list
> Ubuntu-us-chicago at lists.ubuntu.com
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-chicago
>