Daniel James wrote: > Hi Rosea, > > >> Does 64studio has an win32 installer, which makes it possible to boot in >> Windows and install from there? >> > > Not at present, it's not really a big deal for users to boot from CD or > DVD anyway. There is Wubi, but I'm not keen on that because you lose the > benefits of the ext3 filesystem. > > Cheers! > > Daniel
Hi Daniel :) after reading Rosea's question I thought that this is an bad idea, but reading about Wubi, http://wubi-installer.org/ and watching http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5x9iJWXbUY I changed my mind. Just listen to the question at the beginning of the video ;). This kind of install isn't good for people who prefer Linux, but it can help Linux or at least open source software to become more common. Once I downloaded applications like GIMP, Thunderbird, Firefox, OOo and a lot of other applications from the FLOSS world as Windows versions and helped a friend to install them. Before some applications can run under Windows, there's the need to install additional software and when you run them under Windows, you're still limited to the DE, you aren't able to enjoy the advantages of DE's like KDE. Wubi IMO seems to be a good way to install full access to open source software as a sideline and also it might help people who are fixed to Windows, to come to know the full advantages of open source operating systems, e.g. various desktops that can be 'zaped' just by dragging the mouse courser out of the current desktop. If enabling an win32 install for 64 Studio won't be too much work and if it won't blow up the ISO's size, than it would be a good idea to have this option for 64 Studio (and any Linux else). Not everyone needs the administrative advantages of Linux, quite the reverse, less people 'from other OSs' don't care about journaling and don't like permissions. Thinking self-interested (and I know some people have the same trouble I have), I can run my workaday Linux as 'true Linux install' and the Windows I need, because audio production isn't fine with my Windows and I often can check, if latest distros are fine for audio productions with my hardware, without having lots of partitions and lots of test Linux installs or removing my workaday Linux. As previously mentioned, my first thought about an win32 installer was, that this seems to be a bad idea, but reassessed I belief it's a good idea. No repartitioning means no stress for users without any experiences, because of less risks. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
