On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> A while back, we had a thread on how long it takes to install MS products
> vs. Linux.  Linux World has some actual numbers:
> http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2002/0812.install.html

Interesting that a recent product like Windows 2000 would still require
any reboots at all.  I'd say 8 reboots was not too bad.  It took me 9
reboots and 3 bluescreens to get the webcam installed and working on my
mom's Win98 box.

Gentoo Linux does not require a reboot even after everything is installed,
up and running.  Reboots: 0 ...I installed it from a running Mandrake
install once and left the chrooted gentoo running for nearly a month.  
Bootable distributions offer an easier time than that.