From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Mar 13 18:38:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E84A215031 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 18:38:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.2/8.9.1) id DAA81965; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 03:38:25 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des) To: Terry Lambert Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), Dave@Yost.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd vs. linux and NT chart References: <199903072043.NAA27148@usr04.primenet.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 14 Mar 1999 03:38:24 +0100 In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of "Sun, 7 Mar 1999 20:43:40 +0000 (GMT)" Message-ID: Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert 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 -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message