1. Do NOT convert your Linux partition to FAT32. Do NOT convert it to NTFS.
Don't do it! It won't work! For Linux to run, it needs to be run on a file
system capable of handling Unix style file permissions. Neither FAT32 nor
NTFS support them.
2. Try using QTParted instead of Partition Magic to
On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 09:13:20PM -0600, Kaustubh Gadkari wrote:
love of all things FOSS - in fact, they were almost certainly driven
by their economic baseline. Why does that make their kernel
contributions bad (for the lack of a better word)?
Not at all. Did I say anything that suggests
On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 08:19:20AM +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
If you see that the business interest actually translates into
requiring to contribute kernel code, aren't they anyway enhancing the
kernel ?
Never denied that. The term is key contributor and it is arrived at on
the
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Mayuresh mayur...@acm.org wrote:
On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 08:19:20AM +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
If you see that the business interest actually translates into
requiring to contribute kernel code, aren't they anyway enhancing the
kernel ?
Never denied
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Mayuresh mayur...@acm.org wrote:
No, because the fact that their business depends on Linux is known. And
for the same reason, I'd not call MS as key contributor just based on
numbers as how much they depend on Linux is clear as well.
Linux is one of the
On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 07:02:28PM +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Mayuresh mayur...@acm.org wrote:
No, because the fact that their business depends on Linux is known. And
for the same reason, I'd not call MS as key contributor just based on
numbers
On 04/05/2012 08:14 AM, Mayuresh wrote:
You might patch a thing n times just because it broke n times, does not
make you a better contributor than someone who contributed fewer times
though with better quality and functionality. Just the count is not a
measure of intent.
Patching something n
