Re: [Sheflug] Christmas

[John Southern <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Richard, 

Happy Xmas to all. Hope everyone gets what they want, but only if they have 
been good!

> Maybe we'll see some of you at Fosdem this year

Hopefully!

> While I'm about it someone might like to have a look at this....
> http://gag.sourceforge.net/

What a strange idea. I do not know whether this is wonderful or a disaster.
Half of me likes the idea of pretty pictures, but the need for VGA support has 
a few problems for me.
The system would be fine on a home PC or even in a small office IT department, 
but a complete disaster for servers where typical service consoles are via a 
text only connection.
One side of me wants the pictures because it will make it appeal to a wider 
audience, but the other side of me says I am old enough to be able to read 
words and do not need icons (Yes I prefer to live on a console during the 
day).

The limitation of nine OSes is also worrying. Something such as Acronis ($50) 
which will allow up to 100. OSL2000 ($25) is similar.
Using the Ranish Partition Manager you can create an unlimited number of 
multiboot OSes.

However, how many do you really need? A quick look at my grub on my main 
machine gives me 16 choices (Debian, Kubuntu, Suse, RHEL, Fedora, Mandriva, 
FreeDOS, DragonFly, Feather, DSL, Puppy, SlaX, Arc, Solarisx86, SchilliX, 
JohnOS)
To be honest, I rarely boot anything apart from the Debian which is left 
running.
Most of the OSes, I should strip out to reclaim some disk space as I tend to 
use VMplayer when I want to test something. The exception here is Solaris x86 
which is veeeeerrrrrrryyyyy sssslllllooooowwww under VMplayer.

Regards
John





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