Bad Logic Jump
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| azerthoth Jan 25, 2009 3:58 AM EDT |
How he got from LiveCD's being a thing of the past due to lack of persistance to naturally progressing to Netbooks is beyond me. He made a wonderful case for thumbdrive/media card booting, and truth be told those are actually easier to deal with than CD/DVD's after you know the trick. Live distributions are hardly a thing of the past, the medium that they are run from, thats a different story. What the heck Netbooks have to do with it is beyond me, my OLPC boots and runs from a SD card and has a 80 gig USB drive attached that has /swap and /home on it. The SD card is the key, not the fact that it's a "Netbook" Good article, terrible logic. |
| ColonelPanik Jan 25, 2009 2:14 PM EDT |
az.....th, You are right, lots of jumbled thoughts.
SSM (solid state media) is handy and cool but my
"can't lose this" info is on CDs. They don't leave the
house, except when I bury them in the backyard.
Don't leave home without some kind of Live CD
so you can rescue files for some winders smuck. What would you think of an OLPC as a netbook? For someone that "works" while away from home? Saw a cool sig on a blog. "My other OLPC is in Bolivia" |
| d0nk3y Jan 25, 2009 4:03 PM EDT |
I think the other thing with the booting from a USB stick is the fact that a bunch of older machines (that are still working fine and are great for running linux on) don't actually have the capability to boot from USB. Much like the older non-El Torito capable CD drives that also couldn't be booted from - we just have to wait a few years until most everything can boot from USB before we chuck out the CD's! |
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