Re: I wish to advocate linux
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu 28 Feb 2013 at 09:36:29 +0000, Joe wrote:
>> On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:04:04 -0500
>> Mark Filipak <markfilipak.linux@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Let me give you an example of the kind of insensitivity (or myopic
>>> stupidity) that seems to be the hallmark of the Linux community. In
>>> the Debian live page, dd is offered as the way to copy the ISO file
>>> to a USB stick. But the dd program offered only runs in Linux! What
>>> good is that to someone who is running Windows at the time?
>>
>> A Linux article that proposes the use of Linux (actually Unix) commands
>> and not Windows commands? Whatever next?
>
> I think Mark has made a fair point, but not in a fair way. He is
> probably referring to
>
> http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/
>
> which is not particularly nor exclusively aimed at Linux users. He (and
> others) might wonder why there is substantial advice for users of
> non-Linux OSs on writing an ISO image to a CD but nothing for writing to
> a USB device.
Linux isn't as myopic as people are claiming in this thread.
Ubuntu points users to this page to create a flash installer:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/
And Fedora points users to a Windows version of liveusb-creator here:
http://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/
Debian, unfortunately, only gives instructions to burn to a CD/DVD via
Windows on:
http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#record-windows
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