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Re: OpenSUSE 10.3 Beta Live CD Released, Freespire Gets the Pass

On Aug 14, 2:45 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> ____/ Darth Chaos on Tuesday 14 August 2007 08:14 : \____
>
>
>
> > On Aug 13, 4:58 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
>
> >> Freespire On; Freespire Off
>
> >> ,----[ Quote ]
> >> | I've been waiting for months for the release of Freespire 2.0. Over the
> >> | past two years I've downloaded and tried many distros but had been saving
> >> | the "best for last."
> >> `----
>
> >>http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2007-08-13-001-26-RV-DB
>
> > I actually downloaded and tested Freespire 2.0 for sh*ts and giggles.
> > On the bright side, my wifi worked right out of the box and I was
> > online in a matter of seconds. Then I use apt-get to install gdm,
> > GNOME, and XFCE, and changed my default desktop manager to GNOME. It
> > was okay, but the next day I had Ubuntu 7.04 back on there. The one
> > advantage that Freespire has over Ubuntu is my install size on my
> > laptop on Freespire with GNOME and Amarok and XFCE installed is about
> > 3 GB, while the default installation of Ubuntu takes up quite a bit
> > more. (Could that be because Ubuntu uses the ext3 file system, as
> > opposed to Freespire which I think still uses ReiserFS3?)
>
> It shouldn't affect used capacity much. The allocation tables (or equivalent)
> are relatively small. Continuous storage should almost be identical.
>
> Did you run scandisk.exe and defrag.exe?

No. All I do is do a straight install of Ubuntu (tell it to take over
the entire disk). I've gotten away from dual-booting Windows and
Ubuntu and now run only Ubuntu. Practically every day, I find more
things that I can do on Ubuntu.

The only time I run Windows (in my case, Windows 2000 Pro SP4 with all
the updates installed via the latest release of AutoPatcher 2000) is
when I'm on my 2.1 GHz desktop (hopefully upgraded by year's end to
3.0 GHz P4 and a 500 GB HDD) because I have a real good TV tuner card
(AVerTV GO 007 FM Plus), and the tuner card doesn't like Ubuntu all
that well. (It does video fine, but it's one of those cards that
generates the audio right from the tuner card, and I find it a hassle
to run a specialized sox command every time in order to get the sound
to play).


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