Re: Linux plus XP

[mike808@users.sourceforge.net]

> > Which version of Mandrake?
> I dunno, I'm just blindly quoting a random web page. :)

Unless it's MDK9.1, it won't work. MDK9 was released *before* that ntfsresize
code was written.

> > But the new MDK9.1 may indeed have XP resizing. Good features from GPL 
> > software tends to spread among the distros relatively quickly. :=)
> 
> If the mandrake installer is using the ntfsresize utils in the link in my 
> original reply, it supports XP's NTFS.

> I can't find a changelog detailing when that support was added, 

That ntfsresize code wasn't released until June 2002. Xandros was the first
distro to include it. SuSE 8.1 was next. And now apparently MDK9.1, and
it wouldn't surprise me if RH9 has it, too.

As I said, Open Source allows good code to propogate quickly to more users 
faster than non-Open Source, since there is no artificial resource requirement 
(i.e. $$$) to limit its spread.

Mike808/

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