Talk:Slipstream (computing)
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[edit] Introduction of the term
"The term is believed to have been introduced by CoffeeCup Software in 1996". Does anyone have a reliable verifiability source for this?
- Hardly. I wrote to Nick Longo personally long ago and he wasn't able to provide any evidence. Furthermore what he kept referring to as "slipstreaming" in our mail exchange isn't what we define in this article; so he might have invented or reinvented the term, per se, but not the practice that we currently denote by that term (see also: Wikipedia:Verifiability). —Gennaro Prota•Talk 06:17, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Benefits?
At the moment there is no real mention of the benefits of slipstreaming, for example, SP2 onto a Windows XP install disc. My understanding was that making your own XP SP2 installation disc through slipstreaming left you with a cleaner install of Windows than if you had installed from your original CD and then patched SP2 on top of this. Is this method actually better? Rufous 15:49, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
- For the home users? It saves time if you constantly format and reinstall your OS. For business users? Sure, when you reinstall the OS to the system you can have all the hotfixes/updates you want already installed and therefore do not have to individually update computers. Imagine the time this saves for the person administrating say 100 PCs.--droptone 23:44, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
