why BSDs got no love

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Wed Dec 16 13:04:23 UTC 2009


Han Hwei Woo <hhw at pce-net.com> writes:
> 2. There is a live CD.
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso

That's a misnomer.  For all practical purposes, there is no difference
between livefs and disc1 except for the lack of packages.  When people
download something called a "live CD", they expect a CD that will boot a
fully functional desktop, with an option to run the installer.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no


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