Linked by David Adams on Tue 28th Oct 2008 16:14 UTC, submitted by M-Saunders
Free Software/open source often gets a bad rap for innovating. It just rips-off the work of commercial developers, right? Not so, as this Linux Format piece argues. FLOSS has pioneered, or been a catalyst in, some notable changes in the computing world. Several of these innovations are OS-related.
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A better example would be the BeOS installation CDs, which were simply live CDs that ran a special bootscript that only launched the Installer app and a few other services. That was as early as '98 IIRC, and there was also an old non-installable demo live CD of R3.5 I think.
And in turn, I believe that approach was taken from the way that install CDs of "classic" versions of MacOS worked.