On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Wellington Terumi Uemura wrote:
> Surfing on the net like i always do,i've found this,Winlinux2000???
> http://www.winlinux.net/features.html
>
> Look like this is not a joke at all!
Depends on your definition of a joke.
The page and the existence of such a thing are definitely not a joke, but
IMO the product is. ;)
Their sharing diskspace with Windows "feature" is actually a big
flaw. They're using the umsdos filesystem instead of ext2, which is slow,
crash-prone (Windows messes up the file system -> Linux is in
trouble), and insecure ("Let's read C:\LINUX\ETC\SHADOW from
Windows..."). The umsdos filesystem is nothing but a bad kludge to allow
things like this.
Also, last time I checked they were doing some things you simply shouldn't
do (such running a normal X server on a framebuffer kernel)
All in all, it's maybe a good thing for someone who just wants to see what
Linux is all about - but on the other hand he'll not get a very good
impression. They could at least state that Linux is normally more stable
and faster...
LLaP
bero
--
Nobody will ever need more than 640 kB RAM.
-- Bill Gates, 1983
Windows 98 requires 16 MB RAM.
-- Bill Gates, 1999
Nobody will ever need Windows 98.
-- logical conclusion
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