Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 08:59:22 -0500 (EST) From: Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net> To: <arch@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Moving Things Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0102190848420.50273-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> In-Reply-To: <20010219004807.B95040@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, David O'Brien wrote: >On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 05:01:55AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >> Windows practically lets you add or remove much of the OS, > >Much of the OS? Has win2k added that much granularity over NT4? >In NT4 you can remove a few MB of very extraneous stuff. It certainly >doesn't give you any real degree of granularity to remove things. Say >their lame telnet/ftp/traceroute/etc.. utils. > >-- >-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) > GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX Unfortunately the opposite. During the installation of win2k, it asks even less questions and installs way more than nt4 did in terms of megabytes. I haven't seen myself or heard of a way to uninstall components that used to be optional either, and win2k does a good job of making sure you cant delete them manually. Attempts to delete just about any file that win2k thinks is important will trigger Windows File Protection to put another copy in from its magical stash, or ask for the cd ;( Might be great for OS integrity but a big pain in the butt for the intermediate user who knows what they are doing but not how to hack the registry to disable WFP. Windows 2000 has an even bigger problem than FreeBSD in installation granularity. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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