> > There has been lots of cruft-removal, find-indentical
> utilities floating around
> > the unix world for ages. At least one (methinks more) is
> actually packaged with
> > debian. I wonder why they never came to wide use... ;-)
>
> Probably because the only reason Microsoft put this into W2k
> is that there
> is so much file duplication that they're desperate to find a
> way to reduce
> it.
Huh? What file duplication?
>From what the article says, it is likely that this is going to be used for
over-the-network installation of NT boxes. SIS would allow admins to setup
different configurations of NT with different things installed/enabled, but
since the majority of the files are the same, not waste as much space.
-mike
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