----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Blick" <bblick@sonic.net>


> 2. Dell laptops do have bios updates, and in my case it made a huge
> difference to my linux installation but had no visible effect on the
> Windows side.

Hmm, that's interesting.  What kind of effect do you mean?  Linux only
uses the BIOS for information purposes when the kernel is booting.
Outside of that, the BIOS is pretty much ignored.  DOSEMU and WINE would
be exceptions.

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