Date: 14 Mar 1999 03:38:24 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), Dave@Yost.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd vs. linux and NT chart Message-ID: <xzppv6cdcdb.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of "Sun, 7 Mar 1999 20:43:40 %2B0000 (GMT)" References: <199903072043.NAA27148@usr04.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> writes:
> 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?").
That would require someone to actually write a Windows program. Yuck.
DES
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