Reply #155: LOL

[Occulus]

You mean, the hardware actually LET you install linux instead of having Vi$ta? /snark

Seriously, though, I did read a report or two of a computer manufacturer- I think it may have been either HP or Dell- actually forbidding installation of linux on machines sold with Vi$ta. It would try to load the linux kernel at install time and would return a kernel panic and lock up or some other such 'brick wall' barrier, regardless of the kernel version. I don't know how much truth there was to it, but I certainly would not put it past Micro$oft to put something requiring that into their manufacturer's licensing agreement. It fits their M.O.....