The Ubuntu Experiment

[Dotan Cohen]

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).


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