The Ubuntu Experiment

[Derek Broughton]

Gilles Gravier wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> 2008/7/31 Lorenzo Taylor <daxlinux at gmail.com>:
>>   
>>> They will let
>>> Windows run anywhere from 3 months down to only about a week, yes I have
>>> heard of reinstallation once a week, especially in a university
>>> environment, before reinstalling and restoring the systems. And this was
>>> in fact Windows XP Professional. They are able to restore things to the
>>> point where the end user doesn't realize that it has been done.
>>>     
>>
>> At my university, every Windows XP Pro machine is reformatted at every
>> BOOT with Norton Ghost or some such product. I don't see why they
>> don't simply make the C: filesystem read only (with /tmp and caches on
>> a rw partition).
>>   
> Because Windows keeps writing in all kinds of stupid places all the time.

Yeah, I don't think you _can_ make it read only.  Of course, they could just
boot Windows VMs...
-- 
derek