Linux-Watch: Older Hardware, Windows, and Linux | Linux Today

Linux-Watch: Older Hardware, Windows, and Linux

Written By
SJV
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Jan 10, 2006

[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols
for this link. ]

“Microsoft’s most recent anti-Linux FUD efforts are perhaps its
most pathetic ever.

“In a recent eWEEK story by ace operating system reporter Peter
Galli, Microsoft Challenges Linux’s Legacy Claims, Bill Hilf,
director of Microsoft’s Linux and open-source lab, claimed that the
lab’s tests of Windows and Linux on legacy hardware found that when
both were installed and run out-of-the-box, it ‘put to rest the
myth that Linux can run on anything…'”

Complete
Story

SJV

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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