From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 26 1:24:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (caustic.org [64.163.147.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0723B37B41C for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 01:24:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0Q9Ogj79118; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 01:24:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jan@caustic.org) Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 01:24:41 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" X-X-Sender: jan@localhost To: Terry Lambert Cc: Anthony Atkielski , Subject: Re: Why dual boot? In-Reply-To: <3C527220.C5842AA7@mindspring.com> Message-ID: <20020126011043.P32624-100000@localhost> X-Ignore: This statement isn't supposed to be read by you X-TO-THE-FBI-CIA-AND-NSA: HI! HOW YA DOIN? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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