On Saturday June 16 2007 4:28:00 pm Alexey Eremenko wrote: > hi all ! > > I'm thinking - would it be possible to install openSUSE on NTFS > partition, to prevent repartitioning, so more Windows users will be > able to try out SUSE Linux ?
#1 reason this won't happen anytime soon is because Microsoft does _not_ publish the specifications for NTFS and would only share them with companies that are willing to pay extremely large amounts of money on a continuing basis with all kinds of Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) in place. These companies would most likely have to pay a royalty/license fee for every product sold that utilized this knowledge too. Microsoft has _not_ developed a Linux read/write driver for NTFS, Microsoft is _not_ going to support any that may be developed. Where does the end user go for support? What support options does the NTFS-3G project offer? Where does SUSE/Novell turn for support of NTFS? When a Windows user installs any Linux distro onto an NTFS file system and then whatever problem occurs that causes _any_ data to be lost - where does that user go for support? Microsoft will just laugh and charge their credit card for the joke. Since no Linux distro has the source code for NTFS or a support contract in place with Microsoft for NTFS, how are they going to help? > The primary advantage to this technology is no need to repartition a > hard drive at all. A very welcome feature to win-noobs alike. Until they have a problem that wipes out data. Then who are they going to call? > -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" Alexey, please go price a support option from MIcrosoft to handle NTFS problems with any Linux distro. Doesn't have to be openSUSE. Let us know how that goes. I am 99% certain that SUSE, Novell and Red Hat have in the past. ReiserFS was dropped as the default install file system for openSUSE because the 2 people at SUSE that supported it couldn't get continuing help from Namesys and Hans Reiser for either ReiserFS 3 or 4. It is still available as a user choice but if there isn't any support where do you go for bug reports, known errors, etc? -- Stan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
