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From: Jerry Peters on 30 Mar 2010 16:53 Sylvain Robitaille <syl(a)alcor.concordia.ca> wrote: > On 2010-03-30, Pirillo <remailer(a)reece.net.au> wrote: >> >> It's not only about memory and processor power. Some of these netbooks >> have no moving parts.... > > notbob followed up: >> >> Some, not all. My Asus eee comes with a 160G hdd and is most >> certainly a "netbook". > > Mine came with a 4GB SSD. I use an 8GB SD card for /home and /local > (for software installed separately from what ships with the OS). The > smartest thing I ever did for this thing was replace the original > (Xandros based) OS with Slackware. > It couldn't have been worse than Linpus which came with the AA1. I tried it for a week or so before replacing it with slack. It was as bad as windows, make a simple change and something completely unrelated would break. I also mad the mistake of looking at some of the Linpus scripts that were written for the AA1, obviously written by someone *totally* unfamiliar with bash. Jerry
From: Sylvain Robitaille on 30 Mar 2010 17:45 Jerry Peters wrote: >> ... the smartest thing I ever did for this thing was replace the >> original (Xandros based) OS with Slackware. >> > It couldn't have been worse than Linpus which came with the AA1. ... No, it isn't that it (the EeePC Xandros-based shipped OS) was "bad". It was different, and in fact I found it was remarkably well done (very usable from a "just a user's" point of view, and not at all offensive from a system administrator's point of view). I've definitely seen (and worked with) much worse. I used it for a couple of years before I grew tired of the apparently absent (after about the first six months or so) updates and hosed my ability to use a (graphical) web browser on it when trying to update Firefox manually (if they won't issue the update, said I, I'll just do it myself!) That, of course, was the last straw (I'd already reset the unit back to factory-fresh a couple of times since I'd bought it, and was annoyed at having to redo all that I'd done to that point, sometimes with not exactly the results I'd been after), so Slackware went on. It took a couple of false starts to get going with it, but once I had it installed, I realized how much I really should have done that sooner ... It was like coming home after a long trip abroad ... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sylvain Robitaille syl(a)encs.concordia.ca Systems analyst / AITS Concordia University Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science Montreal, Quebec, Canada ----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Sylvain Robitaille on 30 Mar 2010 17:54 JohnF wrote: > relatime/noatime? I use "noatime" for all my SSD/SD mounted filesystems on the EeePC. > What's the best way to mke2fs/tune2fs/mount a flash drive type device? "best" is a rather subjective term. I've been satisfied with the above. > Did somebody in this ng once recommend fat fs for data only backups? Do you really think such advice can be taken seriously? I'm no filesystem expert, but this is a computer used by humans (2 of them), not for data only backups. We actually care about file system attributes. ext2/ext3 have been very good filesystems in my experience and so I continue to use them. As for my backups, in practice I'm not going to need to read them on any system that can't read ext2 or ext3 ... I do keep a couple of (preformatted to VFAT) USB keys handy for exchanging files with folks who use systems that can't read or write anything not FAT (or FAT-like), but those are separate from the EeePC. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sylvain Robitaille syl(a)encs.concordia.ca Systems analyst / AITS Concordia University Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science Montreal, Quebec, Canada ----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Sylvain Robitaille on 30 Mar 2010 17:56 Martin Schmitz wrote: > ... They all use a technology called "wear leveling" which guarantees > you more write cycles than you could ever use in real live. Oh good. My 4GB SSD + 8GB SD EeePC will likely last years longer then. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sylvain Robitaille syl(a)encs.concordia.ca Systems analyst / AITS Concordia University Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science Montreal, Quebec, Canada ----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Sylvain Robitaille on 30 Mar 2010 18:05
Pirillo wrote: > ... I would like to see a good tutorial on how to mount > noncritical directories on a ram based filesystem. ... RAM may be cheap, but disk space (whether of the rotating platters variety, or as flash media) is cheaper. My EeePC has 1GB of memory (expanded from the original 512MB) and I would rather use that memory for things other than file storage ... I use the EeePC differently than I use a desktop computer, but it's nice that I'm able to work on the same types of things if I choose to, without running into memory limitations. > .... Is it worth the pain? Isn't it better to use a live image with a > permanent /home directory instead? This is similar to the "what's the best way to ..." question I answered in a different message. "better" is subjective. For me, it's "better" to have Slackware installed on my netbook than any other alternative I've considered. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sylvain Robitaille syl(a)encs.concordia.ca Systems analyst / AITS Concordia University Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science Montreal, Quebec, Canada ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |