On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday 09 October 2010, my mailbox was graced by a missive > from André Machado <[email protected]> who wrote: > >> Or maybe we can use an existing application like UnetBootIn or put on CD >> some w32 application like Win32ImageWriter. > > Nothing against putting MS progs on the CD, but do not forget there are people > out there who do not have Windows... > I believe that the imtent was to provide on the disc a freely distributable win32 application that could burn a DVD/CD from an ISO image since MS Windows lacks that ability natively. In the early days of Linux, it was common to see some win16 or DOS apps for re-partitioning and so on. The idea is to assist the newbie.
And if you lack MS Windows, you can always use WINE ... 8) -- Hoyt
