Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 10:27:12 -0800 From: Dave Yost <Dave@Yost.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd vs. linux and NT chart Message-ID: <v04104409b30f0c4792ad@[205.219.69.138]> In-Reply-To: <199903072043.NAA27148@usr04.primenet.com> References: <57399.920834139@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 7, 99 11:15:39 am
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At 8:43 PM +0000 1999-03-07, Terry Lambert wrote:
> For example, a really trivial thing that could be done that would
> make people hundreds of times more likely to try FreeBSD is to allow
> it to install in a subdirectory of a Windows 95/98 file system, such
> there was no "commit-before-trying" requirement. This would require
> either a native UMSDOS VFS layer, or finally fixing the stacking, so
> that you could get UNIX attributes on the files via a stacking layer.
> You could go this one better than that, and actually place an ICON
> on the desktop, as part of the install process, that caused the
> machine to reboot in FreeBSD. You could go two better by placing an
> AUTORUN.INI on the FreeBSD CDROM that offered to do the install into
> a subdirectory for you ("Install FreeBSD Test Drive?").
Minimizing the cost/difficulty of tryout is good. These are great ideas.
Dave
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