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- From: dingelde@igd.fhg.de (Dennis Dingeldein)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Some interesting Novice Questions (not found in FAQ)
- Message-ID: <dingelde.720952611@jocki>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 08:36:51 GMT
- Sender: news@igd.fhg.de
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- Hi!
- Here are some question of a Linux-novice. Please post me your
- opinion(s), even if you want to answer just one question.
- Every mail is apprechiated, if there is a large echo I'll summarize.
-
- 1) Would you state that Linux is good enough to buy a PC just to run
- Linux/X11 on it ?
-
- 2) Is a 15'' Monitor (1024x768ni, >80Hz) "good" enough to read the X11
- default fonts of X11 ? Or is 15'' a pain ?
-
- 3) Does Linux support Local Bus Architectures ?
-
- 4) There is a S3 X Server 0.0. Is it a good idea to buy a S3 card
- or will this server work only with some (a few) S3 cards, but not with
- the most/all cards ? (the low speed of 0.0 would be no problem, I believe
- that will change in the next months)
-
- 5) Is it a good idea to use one singe efs-partition of lets say 200 MB
- for all the Linux stuff ? Are there disadvantages for this efs solution
- (efs=extended file system) compared to a set of "usual fs" partitions ?
-
- 6) I noticed that mkefs failed ("not enough memory") to make a 160MByte
- efs on a 486 with 4MB memory. Is there a work around (besides using
- another partition as swap partition...). 140MB worked well (as I
- remember)
-
- Dennis
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