Re: Is my old RedHat computer doomed?

In article
news:<pan.2008.07.28.12.43.51.211943@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Martin Gregorie wrote:
I ordered a Thinkpad R61 last night and
its first boot will be into the FC9 installer :-)

That'll presumably be supplied with Vista?

I should be very interested to know whether an initial boot from the
hard drive gives you the option to refuse the Vista licence (and
reclaim some of its cost from Lenovo) as you apparently can with some
other new PCs.

Sounds like you won't be using the preinstalled Vista yourself, so this
may be of interest to you, too.

Cheers,
Daniel.


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