Re: Debian Free Software (FSF) or Open Source? (was Re; non-cd...)
Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> writes:
> I've been thinking that if we were to produce a W95 loader that
> allowed you to bring up debian from CD without installing much on
> the DOS disk or partitioning the disk, we might be able to persuade
> some games vendors to write their games on Linux, and just include
> Linux with the game on the CD. That way the would not have to worry
> about supporting more than one OS, although we would need to make
> the graphics setup more automatic, but the games folks probably know
> a lot more about that than we do.
Now this I find quite interesting, but the problem is that most
people, at the very least, expect the computer to go right back to
windows (wherever they left off) when they quit the game.
Of course one semi-devious way to accomplish this (assuming the user
has enough disk space) is to figure out if there's a portable way to
do the laptop suspend trick (copying the current RAM content to disk,
and saving the CPU registers) on launch, and then reverse the process
on quit... The game would then have *all* the machine's RAM to
itself.
A project like this would also probably need to work with the GGI
folks (or someone similar). My suspicion is that X would often be
pointless overhead for this purpose.
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Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930
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