[NTLUG:Discuss] PCLinuxOS 2009.1

Robert Pearson e2eiod at gmail.com
Fri Mar 20 22:06:27 CDT 2009 

On 3/20/09, erich <erich1 at copper.net> wrote:
> 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
>


You are right. It started as a PCLinuxOS 2009.1 update and dual boot
help request and I changed it without realizing it to a PCLinuxOS
2009.1 file system and JFS file system question.
What I really should have asked is if someone has managed to put JFS
on PCLinuxOS 2009 even though DistroWatch says it is not offered.
There are some really talented people on this list.
Maybe that is not possible. If I knew more I wouldn't have to ask the question.
Thanks for the replies and information. Over and out...


> 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
>  >>>>>  _______________________________________________
>  >>>>>  http://www.ntlug.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>  >>>>>
>  >>>>>
>  >>>>>
>  >>>> 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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