Re: Embrace....Extend...Extinguish....Except.....
Agreed with your comment about servers, but this thing will solve problems for my customers, and trying to insist that customers could run Linux really because it's just as good doesn't work, even if it's (mostly) true.
The simplest example (and this is only the simplest) is that it will make it practical to import media into Windows applications directly from a USB-attached XFS-formatted removable media volume. Currently, we can do this with a (VMware) VM, but the administration of that is a nightmare of kludge, as the end user has no interest in Linux (if s/he had, they'd just use Linux for the task in question).
So what interests me here is the possibility of a relatively lightweight installer package that drags in "whatever" is needed to do the job...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
