On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 17:09 -0800, Linda Walsh wrote:
Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
El 28/11/12 21:07, Linda Walsh escribió:
Perhaps someone can explain to me why Windows doesn't need a pre-boot ramdisk in order to boot, while Linux does?
Linux does not need an initrd to boot, distributions do need it to support a wide variety of booting scenarios and not driving developers insane in the process.
That deflects the question.
What wide variety of booting scenarios are supported by linux that are not supported on Windows?
Windows runs embedded, headless, on rescue disks, servers, desktops...um...where is the need?
I have at least 5 different machines around here that can be installed from original MS-cd/dvd but lack support for all sorts of things. Some even don't recognise network hardware, so you need a different machine connected to the Net, and an USB-stick to download them. Hence most MS-machine come pre-installed with all of those additional drivers & patches. Out-of-the-box, most distro's recognise far much more hardware. It is now the other-way-round, compared with the situations in the 90's -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org