Die! NTFS.
Die! NTFS.
Today, Barry writes:
"The 2.6.16.7 kernel supports safe writing to NTFS partitions"
and tells us:
"Puppy2 now has full NTFS write-support enabled".
Why, Barry, why?! You may be an undisputed genius, but it's always been my view that those using XP & NTFS deserve all they get - utter perversity. It would be better that we expend our efforts on killing it. This guy doesn't need any encouragement from the Linux community. Give him an inch and he'll be resurrecting his appalling NewFS project or whatever fancy name his marketing department dreams up. That, the world can do without. Another vista too far...
"The 2.6.16.7 kernel supports safe writing to NTFS partitions"
and tells us:
"Puppy2 now has full NTFS write-support enabled".
Why, Barry, why?! You may be an undisputed genius, but it's always been my view that those using XP & NTFS deserve all they get - utter perversity. It would be better that we expend our efforts on killing it. This guy doesn't need any encouragement from the Linux community. Give him an inch and he'll be resurrecting his appalling NewFS project or whatever fancy name his marketing department dreams up. That, the world can do without. Another vista too far...
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Sage,
I would very much like to ignore everything Microsoft!
Unfortunately, this problem with NTFS is one of the major difficulties
people have when they want to evaluate Puppy.
Thus, we are not really sucumbing to MS, we are making the way easier
for people to migrate to Puppy!
Besides, it's not such a bad idea that Puppy can be a cuckoo, hatching little
puppy ext2 files inside NTFS partitions!
MU's virtual hard drive system will also benefit from NTFS-writability.
I would very much like to ignore everything Microsoft!
Unfortunately, this problem with NTFS is one of the major difficulties
people have when they want to evaluate Puppy.
Thus, we are not really sucumbing to MS, we are making the way easier
for people to migrate to Puppy!
Besides, it's not such a bad idea that Puppy can be a cuckoo, hatching little
puppy ext2 files inside NTFS partitions!
MU's virtual hard drive system will also benefit from NTFS-writability.
OK, Barry. But it would be better if folk threw their PCs in a Florida lake and they were assimilated into Puppy hybrids.
Perhaps 'Invasion' hasn't reached all parts of the globe yet? Here's a clue: watch out for yellow lights in the water. You have been warned.
Good thinking, Nate. Do we get to ogle Ms Ryan, then?
Perhaps 'Invasion' hasn't reached all parts of the globe yet? Here's a clue: watch out for yellow lights in the water. You have been warned.
Good thinking, Nate. Do we get to ogle Ms Ryan, then?
Yes; this fix took the Linux community a while to produce.
A file system shouldn't be that difficult to work out, I think that this is no coincidence but by design.
Understanding this I'm sure Uncle Bill is planning another round of "one ups man ship" to ensnarl Linux.
Windows like the U.S gov. has long been a beast that serves itself, a dinosaur waiting for a meteor.
A file system shouldn't be that difficult to work out, I think that this is no coincidence but by design.
Understanding this I'm sure Uncle Bill is planning another round of "one ups man ship" to ensnarl Linux.
Windows like the U.S gov. has long been a beast that serves itself, a dinosaur waiting for a meteor.
At least as far as software goes, we have a choice. US citizens don't have much choice when it comes to paying taxes.es; this fix took the Linux community a while to produce.
A file system shouldn't be that difficult to work out, I think that this is no coincidence but by design.
Understanding this I'm sure Uncle Bill is planning another round of "one ups man ship" to ensnarl Linux.
Windows like the U.S gov. has long been a beast that serves itself, a dinosaur waiting for a meteor.
Re: Die! NTFS.
Please, don't go that way. Don't sound like a fanboy.Sage wrote:Today, Barry writes:
"The 2.6.16.7 kernel supports safe writing to NTFS partitions"
and tells us:
"Puppy2 now has full NTFS write-support enabled".
Why, Barry, why?! You may be an undisputed genius, but it's always been my view that those using XP & NTFS deserve all they get - utter perversity. It would be better that we expend our efforts on killing it. This guy doesn't need any encouragement from the Linux community. Give him an inch and he'll be resurrecting his appalling NewFS project or whatever fancy name his marketing department dreams up. That, the world can do without. Another vista too far...
Please, just be a Linux enthousiast, but don't talk about 'killing XP and NTFS'. It gives Linux users a bad name.
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I wish I understood why some Linux enthusiasts get so angry about Microsoft. Linux and Windows are just tools for doing a job. Both, it seems to me, have good points and bad points.
I love the concept of open source, and have no desire to make Bill Gates any richer. However, there is no getting away from the fact that Linux requires a great deal more IT knowledge to make it work. An example: getting Wifi to work on a Windows PC took me five minutes, as against five days and five different wireless adaptors in Puppy. I had a similar struggle three years ago trying to burn CD's under Red Hat, a task which was totally routine under Windows.
Don't get me wrong, I like Linux in general and Puppy in particular. But I also like command prompts; I'm a programmer who first used computers in 1968. For those who are a bit newer to the game, I can see why they use Windows.
Pete
I love the concept of open source, and have no desire to make Bill Gates any richer. However, there is no getting away from the fact that Linux requires a great deal more IT knowledge to make it work. An example: getting Wifi to work on a Windows PC took me five minutes, as against five days and five different wireless adaptors in Puppy. I had a similar struggle three years ago trying to burn CD's under Red Hat, a task which was totally routine under Windows.
Don't get me wrong, I like Linux in general and Puppy in particular. But I also like command prompts; I'm a programmer who first used computers in 1968. For those who are a bit newer to the game, I can see why they use Windows.
Pete
Windows isn't all bad. Its market dominance provided a default standard for application developers which ultimately led to the use of computers by people who would have otherwise never considered their use. We should acknowledge a debt to Microsoft, for inadvertently providing so much hardware that Linux can use, and so many applications that demonstrate what a computer can be used for.
As for NTFS, it never gave me any trouble; nor has any other filesystem as far as I know.
As for NTFS, it never gave me any trouble; nor has any other filesystem as far as I know.
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I second what Flash says, and besides, you've got to admit that
RECEPTIONIST -- on call PT, exp'd with MS Office and QuickBooks, knowledge of Photoshop a plus...
is a more dignified want-ad than
RECEPTIONIST -- on call PT, exp'd with OOOrg, Wine, and Puppy Money, knowledge of the Gimp a plus...
RECEPTIONIST -- on call PT, exp'd with MS Office and QuickBooks, knowledge of Photoshop a plus...
is a more dignified want-ad than
RECEPTIONIST -- on call PT, exp'd with OOOrg, Wine, and Puppy Money, knowledge of the Gimp a plus...
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But I like my receptionist to wine about gimp.
And using the time-clock program at the last place I worked allows me to state "I have experience with OS/2." Even though the system only was used to multitask DOS apps on a 486.
And using the time-clock program at the last place I worked allows me to state "I have experience with OS/2." Even though the system only was used to multitask DOS apps on a 486.
There is a yellow one that won't accept the black one
That won't accept the red one that won't accept the white one
And different strokes for different folks
That won't accept the red one that won't accept the white one
And different strokes for different folks
Today, Barry writes:
"......I'm fed up with NTFS...."
Not sure that the EU is going help, either, Barry - too much money in the pot, too many greedy accolytes with their snouts in the trough.
Seems like all the very best advice I collected from gurus over two decades, the equally half-cocked success by the USDoJ and my own worst fears have proved correct. Messing around with a lunatic like Gates brings special rewards. Read, in his own words, in his own book, the despicable way he treated his infant sister - portent of the future, indeed.
Die, NTFS!
"......I'm fed up with NTFS...."
Not sure that the EU is going help, either, Barry - too much money in the pot, too many greedy accolytes with their snouts in the trough.
Seems like all the very best advice I collected from gurus over two decades, the equally half-cocked success by the USDoJ and my own worst fears have proved correct. Messing around with a lunatic like Gates brings special rewards. Read, in his own words, in his own book, the despicable way he treated his infant sister - portent of the future, indeed.
Die, NTFS!