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Ext 3 vs NTFS
lazygamer:
quote:No. But DOS doesn't work like that anyway - you can't run windows programs from DOS in the way you describe, can you? And what would be the point? It would amount to starting the X server, running the program and then killing X. Why not just have X running if you want to run graphical applications?
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Lol, no I mean graphical DOS programs! ;)
But I guess if a person wants an 0ld$k00l Linux experience, there is always a graphical X command line window. Actually, graphical(rather than text mode) command lines are better... you don't have to screw around with text mode refresh rates. I don't know if it's even possible to change a text mode refresh rate, but graphical ones can be changed quite good!
flap:
graphical DOS programs? You mean games?
Calum:
not all graphical DOS programs are games, partition magic 6 has a DOS only version with a GUI, and what about the arachne browser? it does not require windows to be running. i think the linux version does not require X to be running either, and as another non-X GUI linux tool, what about pkgtool and pkgtool2 which are package management tools (surprisingly enough) bundled with slackware and peanut linuces respectively.
this thread is quite irritating to me because nobody's really got to the meat of the matter as far as i can see.
NTFS is a closed standard filesystem. it is not reliably supported on any system other than later versions of winNT (to my knowledge) purely because of the designers' decision to make it that way. Latterday linux filesystems such as Ext3, ReiserFS and XFS (if i hear rightly) do journaling, and keep themselves clean, tidy, fast and free of errors and are also all open standards, meaning microsoft could implement windows support for them tomorrow if a) they wanted to truly advance computing and b) they really wanted to prove their closed source development model is in any way workable. but they don't so draw your own conclusions.
flap:
Yes, you can run svga mode applications (apps that use svgalib or similar i.e. not X apps) in console mode.
lazygamer:
Ok about NTFS vs EXT3.
NTFS gets less fragmented than FAT32, but EXT3 is far ahead of it, correct?
NTFS has some extra features, but they are moot point.
NTFS is closed, EXT 3 is not.
What is left to compare? I'm curious about speed(different filesystems have different speeds right?) and clustering. Like a file system writes to a cluster, and will waste some space on the last cluster it writes to. This will add up over time. IIRC NTFS wastes less space than FAT 32, but what about NTFS vs EXT3 for space wasting?
I'm still foggy about what I mentioned above, so let me know if I got it right.
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