Re: history (Was Re: Corel/Debian Linux Installer)
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca> writes:
> On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Jonathan Walther wrote:
>
> > Its important to teach people good habits right from the beginning. The
> > huge monstrous / partition is a Linuxism that sets users of other unixen
> > sniggering at our naivete.
>
> It is equally naive to belive that every system needs fast(er) recovery,
> space management and all the other things that multiple partitions can
> provide over the space flexability that they take away!
>
> Not everyone is running a mission critical server where they care
> excessively about unlikely failures, most people want something that is
> flexable and can adapt to their needs without problem 'need to APT install
> 200 meg? No problem' type of idea.
>
> Those are the people Corel is targetting.
And exactly those people will scream at you when they have reinstall
the system after a crash, just because fsck for / fails instead of
/tmp, which would be easy to fix or to ignore.
May the Source be with you.
Goswin
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