Re: How to be fully MS-free on a laptop??

[Ian Collier <Ian.Collier@comlab.ox.ac.uk>]

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 03:54:13PM -0400, Beartooth wrote:
> Not having heard of the Great Satan's buy-in when it
> happened, I got an ibook thinking it would save me
> having to scour odd evil bits of code that might
> infest obscure corners -- only to have it boot up with
> IE, big as life. 

What is "the Great Satan's buy-in"?

> 	First question: is that all, or are there other
> contaminating and corrupting electronic pollutants?
> 
> 	Second: how do I best get rid of it/them, and be sure
> to leave no traces? I've never had any experience with
> Apples before.

Since this is the "linux-laptop" mailing list, I would
have thought that wiping the whole disk and installing
Linux would have sorted it. ;-)

> 	Third: what should I have done? I.e., how do you get
> a clean laptop to start with? Are there any? Or do you
> have to do a lot of bell book & candle work wherever
> you start??

I believe there are laptops sold ready installed with
Linux, although I wouldn't know which ones or where to
get them.

imc