From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <199907310019.CAA11732@denx.muc.de> To: "David A. Gatwood" Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org From: Wolfgang Denk Subject: Re: How DOES OF Work? (ie multi-OS woes) Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:09:27 PDT." Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 02:19:04 +0200 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: David, in message you write: > > I disagree on all counts here. It really doesn't have anything to do with > whether yuo're an average user or a developer/power user. OF is a pain in IMHO, it does. > the backside. Virtually its only advantages are for A. netbooting, B. > fanatically eliminating MacOS from your machine, C. running a server or > other machine that will (almost) exclusively run Linux, or D. using a > machine that can't run MacOS. Most of the rest of us won't touch OF with Aren't these 4 good reasons? I never use MacOS. Why do I have to keep it running, and waste time booting it just to start what I want to boot from the beginning? > a ten meter cattle prod. :-) This is your $0.02. But YMMV. Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de It's hard to make a program foolproof because fools are so ingenious. [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. Please check http://lists.linuxppc.org/ ]] [[ and http://www.linuxppc.org/ for useful information before posting. ]]