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Ext 3 vs NTFS
lazygamer:
quote:Well X is just another layer of software running on top of the OS, yes. You can use a Unix based system without X running, or even installed. But no, you can't run X applications without X. How could Mozilla/Gimp/xterm etc. run in text mode?
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Well what I meant was have it like DOS was. IE:You type in the name of the application you were going to run and then the application loads(graphics and all, no textmode). When your done, app closes and it's back to the command line(real command line, no command line in GUI window). Possible with Linux?
rch:
quote:So Ext 3 vs NTFS, what are the pros and cons/how do they compare?
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NTFS is a journalling file system used from the days of windows NT.The latest version of NTFS offers features like encryptation,online compression,MFT(Master File Table) which is better than FAT as more than a copy of MFT are stored in the same partition.Its main disadvantage is defragmentation.Ext3 lacks some features of NTFS ,but you can use a encryptation with loopback(Linux is more secure than M$).It uses a architecture called i-node and is also a journalling file system like NTFS.Incidentally JFS
means the Filesystem which creates a journal so that fs errors are corrected faster,once you have a power outage if you boot into your system it will not take the 'extra' time to check your volume for errors.Ext3 requires no defragmentation tool.ReiserFs is a JFS with better performance particularly with small files(the performance is sometimes 50-60 % better).Other JFS are IBM JFS,SGI XFS and so on.
suselinux:
quote:Originally posted by The Master of Reality / Bob:
erm.. no, NTFS and reiserFS are not any way related.
I'm not sure much of the differences between NTFS and Ext.3. Is NTFS journalling like Ext3? Does NTFS require defragmentation? Ext3 doesnt get fragmented nearly enought to require that.
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Sorry I was sleeping when I posted that.
I thought it said EXT3 vs Rieser
I only compared RIESER to NTFS, because they both stive to be a [SECURE] file system
flap:
quote:Originally posted by lazygamer:
Well what I meant was have it like DOS was. IE:You type in the name of the application you were going to run and then the application loads(graphics and all, no textmode). When your done, app closes and it's back to the command line(real command line, no command line in GUI window). Possible with Linux?
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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?
Pantso:
quote:Originally posted by flap:
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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I agree. To run any 'graphical' so to speak app from Linux you also need to have installed the X server. I don't see a point in working entirely from the command line and calling X-based apps from there. That would start and kill the X server but you still should have X installed.
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