On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Matthew Weigel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neko wrote: > >> this is the future. people use multiple os on their machine > > That's actually the past... multibooting seemed way more popular ten years ago > than now. I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say that most people - even > if their machine is set up to boot multiple systems - really just use one OS > per computer.
have you done any analysis of statistical data in order to say so? otherwise all those "way more popular", "most people" it is a big IYHO. > On the other hand, CIFS/NFS network storage devices are cheap, > and people can use them whether they dual boot, or simply have multiple > machines on their network. Then too, a lot of people just use boring old > thumb drives to store data that all their systems can use. well with NFS i'd agree, in case there is a robust free NFS implementation for MS Windows (haven't looked for that myself, as I don't seem to have NFS storage in my home LAN). WRT thumb drives, well they still need some FS to be on them, and fat32 would be a winner (for actual primitiveness thus being supported by anyone), but there is a serious (these days it is) limitation like limited maximal size of a file like 2G (must be 2^31-1 perhaps). actually NTFS seems the *only* sufficiently capable FS within the Microsoft products these days... > -- > Matthew Weigel > hacker > unique & idempot.ent
