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- From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Some interesting Novice Questions (not found in FAQ)
- Date: 5 Nov 1992 12:01:28 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- dingelde@igd.fhg.de (Dennis Dingeldein) writes:
-
- >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 ?
-
- Yes, depending on the applications you need to use it for. If you
- are just needing word processing I don't know. But, if you need a
- multi-tasking multi-user environment I would have to say yes.
-
- >2) Is a 15'' Monitor (1024x768ni, >80Hz) "good" enough to read the X11
- > default fonts of X11 ? Or is 15'' a pain ?
-
- 15" is getting low, but should be fine for reading the fonts on. Hell, at
- school with the nice 16" monitors we have for the IPC's I use the 6x10
- font and love it.
-
- >3) Does Linux support Local Bus Architectures ?
-
- Depending on what you put on the bus yes. I have heard some video or
- disk controllers have problems though.
-
- >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)
-
- Right now from what I understand the S3 server only works with a few cards.
- This should change as more of these cards become common in default setups.
-
- >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 ?
-
- I caution against using the efs for any important data. I used it
- for a while for my root and /usr partitions and found that when put under
- heavy usage. (Lots of compiling usually) that race conditions would show
- up where blocks were getting missallocated and directory entrys were
- getting bad entrys.
-
- >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)
-
- Don't know why this would happen with mkefs.
-
- >Dennis
- >--
-
- James
-