Comments on: desktop nonsense

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 22:30:55 +0000

‘I couldn’t mount my ext3 /home partition with Tiger, while I could do it with FreeBSD… help?’

I’m in the same situation.. http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/ used to do the trick but apparently Apple messed around with the kernel interface between 10.3 and 10.4 and a significant amount of work will be required to get it working again. Still, worth checking the website from time to time - I’m sure the problem will be resolved eventually

By: michel v

michel v — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 08:49:56 +0000

Slightly unfair indeed.
What I intended to demonstrate was that the decade old “Linux sucks for drivers” and “Linux doesn’t ship with apps I need” myths both needed a good debunking.

I may redo that bare install test in the future, with an ethernet cable plugged in so that I could download SP2 right away, to see which effects an updated hardware database would have on my experience of a bare Windows install.

By: Aquarion

Aquarion — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 10:29:24 +0000

Slightly unfair, since Ubuntu is running a more updated hardware database than any Windows XP CD pre-SP2.

Also, nVidia refused to get their video drivers MS certified, so they didn’t go onto the CD.

And is your hardware newer than the XP CD?

Look at this, defending XP against ubuntu from OS X. I’ll be shot…

By: vlam

vlam — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 13:20:38 +0000

well, yeah, but you got no entropy collection other than keyboard/mouse.
and THAT sucks.