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Debian Gets Win32 Installer
An anonymous reader writes "Debian hacker Robert Millan has just announced the availability of a Debian-Installer Loader for win32. The program, inspired by Ubuntu's similar project, features 64-bit CPU auto-detection, download of linux/initrd netboot images, and chainloading into Debian-Installer via grub4dos. The frontend site goodbye-microsoft.com/ has been set up for advocacy purposes. Here are some screenshots."
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/etc/inittab and the init scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d/... The system startup and shutdown procedures are configurable and extensible. One may control which services are started upon system boot and which are terminated on system shutdown, as well as the sequence dependencies. This allows for the orderly shutdown of databases and other sensitive programs which should be shutdown by the application itself, rather than killed while processing, which could lead to data corruption or loss. The system can be booted to various "init" states allowing the system to operate in various configurations to support maintenance and system debugging. On many competing operating systems, the shutdown procedure is not extensible or modifiable.
It is not that i want or don't want linux - that is not the question. the question is, what makes sense for me - and since by definition I have to be average, what makes sense for me makes sense for other windows users.
and for me, the advantages of linux are not advantages that i care about, which is my privelige in a free market economy. I don't care about security or better file system sector allocation or the supposed better quality of open source. Again, this is my privelidge, adn the failure of the linux community to realize that most people are like me is why linux on the user desktop is roughly, rounded off, zero (the inability of thelinux community to provide an answer that is satisfactory to me and others like me as to how to deal with the problem of office doc and xls file compatibility is also big)
you provide a link in your post which leads to this The use of Linux/Unix pipes, tees and redirection allow a modular approach to the design of Linux/Unix tools. They allow the capability of any tool to be extended, chaining input and output with other tools. In operating systems like DEC/VMS, paging and formatting capabilities were built into a tool, instead of leveraging the capabilities of standard Linux/Unix tool components like "more", "sort", "less" and "awk".
you also provide this as to why linux is better The system startup and shutdown is controlled by the system initialization configuration file
Linux avoids the MS/Windows "DLL HELL", which causes Windows or its applications to fail when a newer or incompatible run-time dynamic linked library (DLL) is installed. (See Microsoft DLL database used to help avoid conflicts.) Linux employs version numbers in its run-time shared object libraries, which can therefore coexist on the system with different versions of the same libraries. The Linux RPM package management system also helps resolve dependencies and conflicts with files and libraries.
again, i don't care - that is my priviledge
I'm not interested - that is my priviledge, and since linux is stuck at zero on the desktop, it is fair to ask if 90%of th epeople in the world care, and i thing the answer is no.
if linux doesn't recognize the stuff i have, what is it doing for me - rather then get defensive, and call me names, answer that question on my terms. when you can do that, linux will conquer the desktop like a whirlwind.
ps: last year, i repartioned the harddrive, installed windows 2000 on one partion, and use the other for a second copy of windows (i had an me disk) that way, if there is ever a problem, i can boot to the other os
you can ask, why am i here bashing linux ?? because i hate ms, i hate the cruddy software, i hate egomainiac monsters like ballmer and ellison and jobs, i hate the shitty software ms produces, i'm an extreme leftwing liberal and like the linux model,
but but but
you don't do anything i care that much about, and linux seems to be a pain, and you are forked intoa 100 branches (google psychology of choice to see why this is bad) and and and..
sorry, linux has to do something i care about - simple graphical installs with a nice desktop are a minimum, not something to be proud of , a minimum for a good os.
do something new an dusefull that I care about, and linux will sweep ms away in a moment. keep focusing on garbagge like pipes and awk, you'll never get anywhere
do i have to point out that the feature is already in win XP and is called "application compability"?
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