Boot Linux, BSD, and OS X from Vista

An anonymous reader writes, "NeoSmart Technologies has just released EasyBCD 1.5, complete with support for Vista, Windows NT/2k/XP, and Windows 9x/ME. EasyBCD 1.5 adds experimental support for dual-booting any of these along with Linux, Mac OS X, or BSD — straight from the Windows Vista bootloader without any additional configuration needed!" From the article: "Windows Vista's new bootmanager is a double-edged sword. It's one of the most powerful booting scripts in existence, and a far cry from the very limiting boot.ini of legacy Windows operating systems. But it overwrites the MBR without a second thought, and doesn't provide any means for users of alternate operating systems and boot managers to use their old system. That's where EasyBCD 1.5 comes in!" EasyBCD 1.5 is free.

Comments

Vista Copies Open Source software again?

[LinuxDragon]

Can't this monopoly giant come up with it's own software anymore? Oh i'm sorry, they have yet to ever trully invent their own software, even dos was taken from a programmer in a garage. (Pirates of Silicone Valley). The Original OS of windows was actually the combined work on Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates, which Bill ran off with and beat poor Jobs and Mac to the patent. Now Windows takes it's aim at another group, Open Source. Will they ever stop? they have already copied the basic coding for KDE, and have emulated Gnome. What's next? what comes after copying Grub 1.5? I fear for the world when this beast of an operating system is released. This OS will surely be our undoing with massive lag spikes, BSOD's due to degrading code, lack of technichal support as Microsoft programmers join the ranks of the Google programmers... Good bye world!