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- From: jem@calypso.uucp (Jonathan Magid)
- Subject: Re: Some interesting Novice Questions (not found in FAQ)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.175808.26118@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- References: <dingelde.720952611@jocki>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 17:58:08 GMT
- Lines: 49
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- In article <dingelde.720952611@jocki> dingelde@igd.fhg.de (Dennis Dingeldein) writes:
- >1) Would you state that Linux is good enough to buy a PC just to run
- > Linux/X11 on it ?
-
- It was the only reason I bought a PC. Until Linux, I had no plans to buy
- a micro-computer (until I could afford a Next that is.)
-
- >
- >2) Is a 15'' Monitor (1024x768ni, >80Hz) "good" enough to read the X11
- > default fonts of X11 ? Or is 15'' a pain ?
-
- Depends your VAR rating (Video Anal Retension). I make do with a good
- CTX 14'' monitor, and i am quite pleased with the picture I get... a 17''
- would be better though, and I would make the jump to 17'' and forget 15''.
- IMHO the difference betwen 14 and 15 is not terribly significant.
- >
- >3) Does Linux support Local Bus Architectures ?
-
- The answer to this for both IDE and video seems to be an overwhelming yes.
- I have yet to see any reports of troubles, and have seen many reports of
- success, including my own system which has a local bus ET4000 card.
- >
- >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)
-
- As you say the S3 server is still in progress and seems to be in the
- process of many speedups (when putting it on sunsite, I looked at it briefly
- to see that much of the 8514 code can be improved to take advantage of the S3.
- But as the authors say, it will never support Diamond cards under their
- tutoring...
- >
- >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 ?
-
- Hmmm. This may be a religious question. I use two partitions. One for system
- level utilities (/bin, /usr/bin, /etc). This is for purposes of speed and
- reliability. My user partition (/u) where my own directory is is extended,
- for reasons of having a big partition and to have long file name support.
-
-
- jem.
-
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