Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 01:24:41 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why dual boot? Message-ID: <20020126011043.P32624-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3C527220.C5842AA7@mindspring.com>
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On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > People don't have their first experience with FreeBSD > with the installation of a production system. People > who install production systems are generally computing > professionals, and I would count them out of the target > market for one-off installs, in any case, which is what > we are talking about here. good point. i'm sorry for not following the thread more closely. related, most people do not have much more than 1 or 2 computers in the home. it may be more than just inconvienent to have more than that (computing professionals are an exception, of course), and perhaps a financial limit. most "joe blow" people want something that'll just work, and windows, as much as we may hate to admit it, does just that. > Could someone else send the comment in on the consent > decree public comment period (ends Monday; see SlashDot) > that ther should be a requirement that the space on the > disk should be divided such that either user data, or > another OS, can be installed on all machines, or that > Microsoft should be required to provide partition > shrinking tools that can be operated via addition of a > .bat file in the / directory? could you provide an URL? i must've missed that one. -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "John Ashcroft is really just the reanimated corpse of J. Edgar Hoover." -- Tim Triche To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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