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voidmain:

quote:Originally posted by lazygamer:
The reason why I used the XFS Redhat was because it's susposed to have a big performance increase due to the XFS.
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If you think this will speed up your games it will not. The increased performance gained by XFS will only be noticable if you do massive file I/O (much copying/deleting/etc of many small files). So even though XFS may outperform ext3 you probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

     
quote:So is Redhat similar to Linux for configuring, once it's installed?
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And as m0r stated, RedHat Linux is as much a Linux OS as any other distro (even though "Linux" itself is actually just the kernel). In fact probably more so than most other distros because it is currently one of the oldest. But I guess age would not make a distro any more "Linux", but it does mean they are more experienced. What really makes a distro "Linux" is if it uses the Linux kernel.  I believe the only distro that is older than RedHat that is currently still used is Slackware.

I don't recall Debian GNU/Linux being started until after many of the others. SLS being the first that I remember, then Slackware (derived from SLS), then RedHat, Mandrake (derived from RedHat quite some time later).  Most of the rest of them are fairly recent additions.  But all of the big players are made up of the same basic software.  They each do have some minor distro specific differences and a few system utilities but once you know what they are you will have no troubles.  

And RedHat is currently the most popular distro and is being embraced by many major commercial players like IBM, Sun, HP, etc (not that either of those factors should be a deciding factor but something to consider).  I personally think the two best distros are RedHat and Debian. But for commercial support RedHat is the front runner. And I suspect that within the next week or two (maybe even earlier) you will see the release of RedHat 8.0 which is supposed to refine the desktop even more with the goal of becoming a better desktop system.

I believe SuSe is actually older than RedHat but hasn't become really popular until recently. I have some minor philosophy issues with it which has caused me not to actually try it to this point. I believe I am am accurate on the age order of the popular distros but wouldn't bet on it.

[ September 17, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

lazygamer:
/smacks forehead!

DUH! Of course it's similiar to Linux! I meant to say "MANDRAKE"! I tend to do these noun mistakes see.    

Now what about that CD issue. Should I reburn those CD's? Or is windows "reliable" with multi-tasking while burning?

Oh and even if I won't gain a whole lot of performance boost from XFS, it doesn't have any downsides(assuming the XFS partitioning is not my install problem), so might as well have every little bit of speed eh? Besides, it says it's great at recovering from crashes.

[ September 18, 2002: Message edited by: lazygamer ]

Stryker:
you did a perfect burn, congradulations on that. As for your CD issue i'd suggest going here as it helped me. The page does bring some bad news for you though, lets hope you have dsl or something.

edit: my mistake, there is an easier fix now. before when i was there they didn't have that.

[ September 18, 2002: Message edited by: Stryker ]

voidmain:

quote:Originally posted by lazygamer:
Oh and even if I won't gain a whole lot of performance boost from XFS, it doesn't have any downsides(assuming the XFS partitioning is not my install problem), so might as well have every little bit of speed eh? Besides, it says it's great at recovering from crashes.

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The reason it is good at recovering from crashes is due to the fact that it's a journaling file system. ext3 is also a journaling file system so it too is very good at recovering from crashes (I mean power outages).

RudeCat7:
NO! I know this for a fact! Windows cannot handle the tiniest background application while burning! No screensavers, no virus scanners, nuthin!

In fact, having researched it a lot while I was learning to burn cds, you shouldn't even touch the mouse while windows is doing a burn!

Things may have changed a bit now, with XP being such a "stable" OS and all.

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