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We have come to know the poor man's install as a nice way to put a compress Linux distribution onto a storage medium and load it into RAM or have ...
- 01-02-2008 #1
Contestable Linux Terminology: Poor Man's Install and Frugal Install
We have come to know the poor man's install as a nice way to put a compress Linux distribution onto a storage medium and load it into RAM or have it coexist with the storage medium and RAM. However, there is often a more complex situation at hand: Full RAM or partial RAM.
This, however, can create a problem. For one term is being used to mean two things. In this state of equivocal meaning, people may desire for detachment from the storage medium and usage of the distro in RAM. Distributions, such as Damn Small Linux and Puppy Linux, have given the Linux userbase the ability to fully load a Linux operating system into RAM. And yet, at the same time, such Linux OSs have allowed people to use part of the RAM, thus allowing system resources to be saved.
To erase the confusion, I have decided to offer a new term: Rich man's install.
The rich man's install has to do with the fact you can install a Linux OS all the way into RAM. This will remove any confusion between the fact that two terms, which are the same, have two different meanings:
Frugal install: Partial or full usage of RAM.
Poor man's install: Partial or full usage of RAM.
With the usage of rich man's install, which I have idealized for people to create a subconcious attachment to RAM if a slight linguistic sensation to the "r" in rich and "an" in man would signify RAM, the dual-meaning behind frugal and poor man's install would be removed and confusion would be decreased. Not only did I hope for such a psychological stimulation, but also the fact that it can detach itself from the storage medium into RAM is quite the computer science is a high-class feat, which I employ a low-class computer may not be able to do.
Therefore, I call upon the userbase to help me support this ideal term. I believe there is an abundance created with those two terms already in existence. They mean the same thing, but they both have two meanings. Let us reduce confusion by supporting the term "rich man's install."


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