The Ubuntu Experiment

[Gilles Gravier]

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.

Gilles.
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