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monkeyboy7706Sep 12, 2007
Yes and fedora core has a live installer as does mepis, mandriva and even Gentoo has one in fact very few these days don't.
cfd339Sep 12, 2007
Actually, as I said in the comment, this wasn't consulting work. Had it been, the billable hours would have been 4 or 5 times the cost of replacement for the PC. Rather, this was for a neighbor who had been kind to me and my family in the past. That's entirely different economics where I come from.
350zedSep 12, 2007
"Give me linux to install any day, i'll pass windows installation on to someone else who has plenty of time to waste."Ok then, I'll give you my Thinkpad and my FF install CD, and I'll time you as you fight for hours/days/weeks to get my WiFi and sound working. Then format the HDD, and you time me reinstalling XP and have everything work the first time without any workarounds, command-line mucking about, config file manual editing, Web forum scouring, etc etc etcXP gives me time savinSAVINGS gs because it doesn't make excuses for lack of broad-scale hardware support.And I hate Micro$oft as much as the next guy...
chrisinsocalifSep 14, 2007
I said MORE games.....
subvexerSep 15, 2007
Yeah, chicks really dig uptime.Mounting drives to move around logs doesn't do it for me.