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Re: [Sheflug] Christmas


John Southern wrote:
> 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
>

Thats a lot of OS's John !!!

I too like the idea of gag, as my current system with grub resolutely 
refuses to allow me to use a splashimage at boot time, no matter how many 
patches I apply to it.

Curious you mention Solaris is slow under Vmware. I have never had any 
difficulty with it at all.

Just for info, I received an email from Vmware this morning, stating that 
there is a beta for version 6.

Steve. 



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