I've got one doubt here.
Then does it mean that u cannot recover files on a
resierfs when the system has been improperly shutdown
--- Sivasankar Chander <siva@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
can anybody tell me which of these two isbetter(reiser 4 vs xfs)...?
No idea, I'm quite happy with ext3 on cryptoloop.
also... i am still undecided betw fedcore3 anddrake 10.....
IMHO, FC3 is the best desktop distro that has come
out of the RedHat
stable since RH 7.3. I still dislike the default
Bluecurve desktop,
so I got rid of it and switched to xfce4 instead.
I was able to perform a manual, selective upgrade
of my primary
system (a heavily-upgraded RedHat 7.3 install) using
just the binary
rpms from FC3, and a few SRPMs from previous RedHat
distros. The
salient features are:
Linux-2.6.8.1 (tarball from kernel.org)
Static /dev tree (no udev)
glibc-2.3.3-74 (from FC3)
gcc-3.4.2-6.fc3
rpm-4.3.2-21 (from FC3)
XFree86-4.3.0-55 (recompiled with gcc34 - upgrading
to X.org is hairy)
xfce-4.1.99.2 (still buggy, but a lovely lightweight
WM that's very
easy on the eyes - I recommend the GTK style
with the Xfce-kolors
user-interface theme, but of course it's a
matter of personal
choice. This rivals fvwm2 in all-round
usability)
rxvt-2.7.8 (replacement for xterm, which is a
resource hog. Just say no)
mozilla-1.6.0.dag (an old and reliable release -
I'll move to firefox after
sorting out the dependencies)
postfix-1.1.13 (another legacy remnant)
cdrecord-2.0.1.1-5 (from FC3, supports native ATA
CD-R/RW without IDE-SCSI.
One minor observation is that it burns CD-Rs at an
average speed of 32x
on a 52x writer, with speed varying from about 20x
at the start to 48x
near the end. Pretty good, but I'm not sure if
it's HW-constrained)
ogle-0.9.2 (for DVD playback)
qryptix (my own stuff, to encrypt home directories)
and a bunch of other stuff to satisfy dependencies -
not too difficult.
The entire setup is rock-stable, and astonishly
responsive as a desktop.
All of this is on a PIII-1Ghz/256 MB RAM/i815e with
on-board VGA/sound.
I'd recommend recompiling some critical pieces
(kernel, glibc, xfree86,
some other libraries) using gcc-3.4.2 to take
advantage of the 2.6
vsyscall, as well as other optimizations in gcc33
and gcc34 - the
-mregparm=3 for the kernel (transplanted from
AIX/POWER/PowerPC,
which has had it since 1990(?)) is one of them.
I'm investigating replicating the install on a
legacy PII notebook
with 96 MB RAM - more later. Anybody who thinks that
Gentoo is the
best-performing desktop distro, especially on
resource-constrained
systems, should seriously consider FC3 instead. It
rocks!
(Get the FC3 ISO images from this month's Digit DVD
instead of the
installable DVD from last month's LFY, if you can.
CDROM drives
are more prevalent on legacy systems.)
-Siva
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