Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 03:34:46 +1000 From: Tony Theodore <tonyt@logyst.com> To: KAYVEN RIESE <kayve@sfsu.edu> Cc: deeptech71@gmail.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD anti-competitive activities Message-ID: <s2q22166b751004181034ka70db80cv6e7d18be8ad713c0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOC.4.64.1004180934400.1710@libra.sfsu.edu> References: <4BBA3264.5050702@gmail.com> <4BC88AD8.1000503@gmail.com> <s2l22166b751004161058v9d203ff4o4a44f0168d64ac65@mail.gmail.com> <Pine.SOC.4.64.1004180934400.1710@libra.sfsu.edu>
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On 19 April 2010 02:38, KAYVEN RIESE <kayve@sfsu.edu> wrote: > On Sat, 17 Apr 2010, Tony Theodore wrote: > >> On 17 April 2010 02:05, =C2=A0<deeptech71@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Dmisc/145735 >>> Something sure stinks here... >> >> I find most installers these days are overly opinionated, gparted (and >> sometimes OSX Disk Utility) are the safest bets - or just give away >> multi-booting and simply run virtual machines. > > I'm remembering now Vista being a culprit last time I was messing with > this.. it kept switching how it is required to do dual boot. =C2=A0My tak= e right > now on "the conspiracy" is that all OS developers, FreeBSD and Microsoft > have increasingly had a sense that there are resources that they need to > dominate, and that this is some sort of design decision, not really havin= g > in mind the whole dual boot concept. I don't think it's a conspiracy, just a realisation that with limited resources it's impossible to play nicely with the plethora of partitioning schemes - in a way that's seamless to the majority of users who simply install a single OS. It's actually a very sane design decision (if it's that at all). I'd rather FreeBSD developers spent their time on the OS, not on booting scenarios. > All this for me has fallen by the wayside, because I have long since deci= ded > that each OS warrants its very own dedicated hard drive instead of > negotiating with these MBR headaches. =C2=A0Make sure you get a nice stat= ic > grounding bracelet. I don't have that many drives :). These days with virtual machines and bootable external drives, it's very rare that I need to multi-boot. I tend to go for extra RAM and faster drives rather than more drives - depends on your use case of course. If I do need to set such things up, dedicated partitioners are much easier than OS installers. Tony
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