On 4/22/2010 3:25 PM, Daniel Fussell wrote: > On 04/21/2010 07:11 PM, Wiseguyxp wrote: > >> Do you know if anyone is working on a btrfs driver for Windows? I've >> been playing around with FS configurations on my desktop and haven't >> found anything other than FAT/NTFS to be compatible and reliable >> enough for a shared drive/partition on a dual boot system. Ext3/4 was >> giving me issues in Windows 7 and I finally just gave up, and the >> other FS's discussed here don't seem to have decent drivers for >> Windows 7 either. >> >> >> > I tried once to setup a common partition for windows/linux so I could > ease my wife over to linux. Then one day I was blessed with a complete > CPU/board failure. I built a new 64bit system to replace it, and told > my wife I wasn't going to waste half my machine with windows. I figure, > I paid for the 64 bits, I want them all! > > She swore at me for a couple weeks, and I'll admit the relationship was > strained. > > Now I overhear her talking to friends who complain about commercial > software. Tears come to my eyes and I beam with pride when I hear my > wife say, "Just use > Gimp/Audacity/OpenOffice/Thunderbird/Firefox/VLC/Linux. It's _way_ > better!" Occasionally she pines for her iTunes, but our relationship > has never been better. > > So just use Linux, your wife will thank you (someday). > > ;-Daniel Fussell > Linux: better for relationships too. > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > Unless your wife has a one-strike rule with technology. Unfortunately, mine does. It has made her adoption of MythTV very very interesting, to say the least.
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