The problem I see is when you go out and buy a PC, blowout the partitions that have "longhorn" (MS's next OS) and install linux, reboot the machine and get this error at the POST screen:
Of course, in this day and age you should be building your own. It's a lot easier than it used to be and you get to pick and choose exactly which components you want - hardware & software!
Sure, but since Intel and AMD have both sworn themselves to support Palladium in their hardware, there aren't that many choices left in that area of the consumer market (VIA, I suppose).
"TCPA Error: BOOT DEVICE DOES NOT CONTAIN VALID BOOT KEY"
If something like this may comes to pass then you'll have to shell out more dough for SCSI disks I guess. Not entirely bad...just more expensive.
The disks aren't the issue, it's having software that the Palladium-enabled BIOS says is okay to boot. Where it's booting from doesn't matter. Theoretically, of course. I wonder where I put my tinfoil hat. Brian J. Conway bconway@alum.wpi.edu "LINUX is obsolete" - Andrew S. Tanenbaum, creator of Minix - Jan 29, 1992