[NTLUG:Discuss] PCLinuxOS 2009.1

Fri Mar 20 21:05:41 CDT 2009

This is a confusing thread,
        It looks like it's careening here & there. Anyway my subject is 
jfs (Journaled File
system). I use it on the multimedia box I just set up. This is because a 
typical
movie video is a ~5G file size. As it turns out, the bottleneck is copying a
file that size from one point on the jfs-formatted partition to another, (It
takes about 1.5 minutes.) Deletion of a file was the supposed bottleneck
In ext3 it takes maybe 5 seconds. In jfs, an instant.
       Just for the heck of it, I used ftp to move a full-length 5g file 
from
one computer to another. I discovered that this takes longer than the time
to view it (~1.5-hours to see it ~3-hours to transfer).

                                                                                                           
Erich
Robert Pearson wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Gilbert Morrow <gkfmorrow at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> I keep my wife on PCLinuxOS , she uses it with no problem .
>> Did have a snafu with 2007 (Shuttle XPC) and the "Big Update" , lost USB
>> Flash Drive usability , so when 2009.1 came out I did a install leaving
>> /home , USB problem still existed , then I did a reformat and clean install
>> of 2009.1 , better but still a few kinks .
>> I have a Lenovo laptop it had 2008 MiniMe , Big Update worked flawlessly on
>> it .
>> My system (Alienware) is SuSE 11.1 , KDE 4.2.1 , PCLInuxOS is great for
>> beginers .
>> All systems are dual boot with XP .
>>
>>     
>
> Which file system is everyone using?
> PCLinuxOS 2009.1 offered me the 2 choices of ext3 and XFS.
> XFS would not install on one of my partitions but ext3 would so I have
> one XFS install and one ext3 install.
> All my Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10 installs are using JFS which is great.!!!
> I have tried ext2, ext3 (and maybe ext4?), XFS, ReiseFS plus some
> others. I had never tried JFS.
> The results have been like when ReiserFS first came out on Gentoo. FAST...
> So far no problems like I have had with all the other file systems.
> Those may not have been true file system problems because I
> experienced data loss after file corruption. Maybe salvaging those
> files is beyond the ability of a "journaling" file system. I blamed
> the file system for the corruption. Just a guess...
>
>
>   
>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 7:23 PM, david <david at rawcreations.net> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Robert Pearson wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On 3/18/09, Nat Both <nboth at verizon.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> I even liked pclinuxos when it came out in May of '07. I don't know what
>>>>>           
>>> you old hands in the linux community think about it, but this old man thinks
>>> it's pretty hot. The just released 2009.1 will do some neat stuff right off
>>> the wire. It's the only distro I know of that will run some of my java based
>>> financial trading platforms without a lot of twinking around. And that
>>> includes Ubuntu 8.10. It will run Oanda.com currency trading platform right
>>> off the install. Now for a 74 year old dummy (and most of the rest of the
>>> world) this is a giant step in the right direction. I for one want to see
>>> microshaft go broke, but LINUX has to be GUI JUI user friendly for that to
>>> happen.
>>>       
>>>>>  These guys at PCLINUXOS are high stepping in that direction!
>>>>>
>>>>>  I still have a shuttle on which I tried to set up a dual boot and for
>>>>>           
>>> now have lost all my prior windows stuff. I feel it could be made whole in
>>> five minutes with the right hash bash magic. I am willing to bring it 50
>>> miles if someone would do it.
>>>       
>>>>>  Best Regards to All,
>>>>>  Nat
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  Nat Both
>>>>>  Rowlett (Dallas), Texas
>>>>>  972.412.1354
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> Thanks for the "heads-up!" on PCLinux)S 2009.1.
>>>> I used both PCLinuxOS 2007 (KDE) and PCLinuxOS Gnome and loved them.
>>>> However, after the updates became few and far between and PCLinuxOS
>>>> Gnome had a real problem with mangling my del.icio.us bookmarks I
>>>> stopped using both.
>>>> Now I'll give the new version a try.
>>>>
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>>>>         
>>> I installed PCLOS back at version .93 and have been using it every day.
>>> I skipped the 2007
>>> release because I have not had any problems. Now that all my apps are
>>> out of date (ffmpeg, gcc...etc)
>>> I bit the bullet and installed 2009 on a slave drive. It is everything I
>>> expected from Tex and the
>>> Ripper Gang. In the coming weeks I will be working on a remaster for
>>> cleaning infected Windows
>>> machines, similar to Trinity Rescue Kit. My first attempt, with Linux
>>> from Scratch, went horribly
>>> wrong. (wish me luck!) I haven't tried the Gnome version.
>>> If some are looking for a new distro or just curious, by all means check
>>> out this new release.
>>> Burn a LiveCD or fire it up in a virtual machine.
>>> http://www.pclinuxos.com
>>>
>>> P.S. +1 for AdBlock Plus, and I also recommend NoScript. "Like peas and
>>> carrots!"
>>>
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>> --
>> "Look what I found !"
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