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Technology Stocks : Red Hat Software Inc. (Nasdq-RHAT)
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To: B Hamilton who wrote (35)6/12/1999 5:20:00 PM
From: Matthew Wecksell  Read Replies (1) of 1794
 
How the product works is instrumental to the value of the company, especially with a software company. If I know the OS will load on a fat32 formatted HD then I believe that more people will buy and use the OS, but since it needs a Linux formatted HD I believe that less people will use it.

It's irrelevant what deep format the OS requires. If Linux needs it's own partition (and there are very real reasons why a separate OS should have one) then all a good Linux distribution needs is an installer that can create such a partition easily and the ability for the finished installed OS to read Fat32. BeOS does this to coexist with the Win platform, and problably has a white paper on their be.com pages explaining the reasons this is a good solution.

Think of it like my old Macintosh, which had the ability to read DOS (Fat16) formatted floppy disks. I never used MacOS formatted floppies, because I didn't know if I'd ever need to read my Word and Excell files on a PC. The boot disk should have a native file format, with all the benefits attendant to it, and the OS should be able to read from and write to any other formatted volume.

Ext, the Linux File Format, has all sorts of goodies built into it that you *really* want linux running on a disk formatted for ext. This is analogous to Microsoft making WindowsNT run on NTFS formatted volumes, where Win98 runs on FAT32. Tying an OS to the file format of its boot volume has real benefits.

---matt, wants to hear a good reason *NOT* to invest in RHAT. If this thread becomes Red Hat/Linux boosterism only, it looses its value.
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