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On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:17:42 +1100 |
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Lie Ryan <lie.1296@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Booting was one of my least concern (it's a portable external harddisk, |
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> I don't need an OS in there), I use the FAT partition to store NTFS |
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> drivers (source and precompiled) for systems that don't already have |
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> NTFS-3G installed and where internet is scarce or compiler is |
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> unavailable (e.g. Gentoo LiveCD or Macs) since the rest of my external |
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> harddisk is formatted as NTFS. |
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That's the beauty of Open Source. Commercial development would have |
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killed off FAT because of its low popularity, but Open Source maintains |
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FAT capability because it is something that *should* be available, if |
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only to allow some small group to tinker with ancient systems. |
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Hopefully Gentoo will continue this philosophy of keeping things |
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alive whether or not they represent the mainstream. I sometimes |
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prefer to use older tools. For example, I still use Lilo to boot |
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my machines. Fortunately Lilo is still a part of the portage tree |
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and, IMO, should not be removed simply because Grub is more popular. |
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Once Open Source, and Gentoo, begins to cater exclusively to the |
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latest software fashions, it will, again IMO, no longer be worth |
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using. |
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Frank Peters |
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