Selling Linux to Windows Users

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/12/9 Amy Kelly <engagedtone at gmail.com>:
>> I don't recall the last time I saw a BSOD on any XP or Vista box I've
>> used to be honest.
>
> I had a ThinkPad R40 that would BSOD fairly routinely, but it was a
> hardware issue with the wireless card dying, not an OS one.
>
> amy, who dual boots Vista and Fedora on the main laptop and runs
> eeeBuntu on the netbook - different tools for different jobs.

Do you really think that a bad wireless card should be able to take
down the whole system?!? That should be abstracted and kept out of the
kernel. Actually, I think that Vista does keep these drivers in
userland, but I don't know enough to really be sure.

-- 
Dotan Cohen

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