> From: "Geo." 
> his laptop is a piece of hardware not an OS distribution.

Nope it's a distrib coz I got my laptop out of it's box & turned it on
& everything was already there & loaded. I have yet to open any of
the cd'es that came with the Dell. It's a hard disk distrib. A CD is a
piece of hardware. 

In fact I seem to remember (but I don't have the docs to hand) that some
parts of the "dell XP distie" come with a set of "if you
change this stuff you're on your own" warnings in the docs.

As such if Rich's list from RH is valid then it's valid to run up a list of
all the vendors who pre-load Windows onto machines & then to run up a
list of the apps they also pre-load & thus to count all those apps as
part of Windows.

Adam


> Geo.
> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
> news:402c82c1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Geo. wrote:
>> 
>> > if it's part of the distribution it counts.
>> >
>> 
>> Thnking about it.....my borther's SOny laptop came with XP & a whole
>> host of apps rwady installed...so I take it that all those apps that
>> came installed with the box (e.g. WinDVD etc) are all thus Windows vulns
>> if a problem is found?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Adam
>> 

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