[lug] umsdos linux

[llornkcor at llornkcor.com]

I was bored yesterday at work, and installed on of those linux that runs on windows things- dragonlinux 
to be precise., and was wondering if anybody else has tried one of these things out, and if so, 
what they thought of it?

Personally, I think, hmm, first off, its got really slow fs access, but not as slow as vmware. I don't know 
if its just dragonlinux, UMSDOS, or what, but it 'syncs' files up , and if I have put them in the
 /linux (er, c:\linux, that is) directory under windows, and mangles them in the process. AND 
windows mangles any .rpm, and .deb packages, but .tar.gz seem to be ok.  If I copy a file from DOS, the 
fs doesn't even show it, until I reboot. It's really weird, I think. It might be a good  way for scared 
people to 'check out' linux, but, then again, its not really linux. Another curious thing, the rest of the 
windows HDD, is in a dir called DOS, and, has  micros~1 type of short filenames( which isn't really that 
strange, because the REAL OS [DOS] is in control) I hope anybody  seriously using these realize its 
just bizarre. 
   Make me appreciate linux all the more.


LP