Path: csiph.com!1.us.feeder.erje.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!paganini.bofh.team!not-for-mail From: The Starmaker Newsgroups: sci.physics,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.portable Subject: Re: Knoppix Operating System :-) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2023 00:11:18 -0800 Organization: To protect and to server Message-ID: <65572026.4453@ix.netcom.com> References: Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: paganini.bofh.team; logging-data="193216"; posting-host="nLYg9UBeoMWa070gP9wQcw.user.paganini.bofh.team"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@bofh.team"; posting-account="9dIQLXBM7WM9KzA+yjdR4A"; Cancel-Lock: sha256:JbaoItRzRjr0mVa3HS4MtDEqdX4IvjQf1qJeqxFnvY8= X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 231116-12, 11/16/2023), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.3 Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:882800 comp.os.linux.advocacy:641193 comp.os.linux.portable:72 Physfitfreak wrote: > > On 11/10/2023 6:11 PM, Physfitfreak wrote: > > On 11/9/23 19:41, Physfitfreak wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Ok, with a bit of more experimentation with Knoppix I have started to > > see its limits for computers with minimal resources. > > > > One is that, when I insert an additional USB drive, some of the file > > managers provided don't see it, only Thunar file manager sees and > > accesses it. > > > > Second is (on a 4 GB RAM machine), in Thunar, when I attempt to copy a > > file from the HDD to a second USB drive, it goes through as if it wants > > to do it as usual, but as soon as I click "paste" in the second drive, > > Thunar closes down. When I bring Thunar back up, sometimes nothing is > > pasted in the second drive and sometimes stuff are partially pasted. > > Never a complete copy. And this happens silently without any error > > messages. > > > > But that is with a 4 gb RAM machine. I tried it just a few minutes ago > > with another old computer that has 8 GB RAM and the copying with Thunar > > worked flawlessly. So 4 gb definitely is not enough RAM for Knoppix. > > > > Another issue. I tested Knoppix on my other computer (24 gb RAM). This > one has enough "resources." > > It works without issues, but if you, in the middle of using an > application, leave the computer for like 10 minutes without touching it, > when you come back, everything on the screen is frozen. Clicks and > keyboard inputs won't work, so the task manager cannot be brought up to > force the application closed. So you'd have to just shut the computer > down manually. > > Is this the same problem some of you mentioned in relation to Linux not > coming back up from sleep? If so, then why do I have stuff on the screen > as I left it, and not just a blank screen? It looks like computer > doesn't go to "sleep", but into a sudden, silent, and eternal freeze :) > > Very Linux like. > > But this computer is the one on which Linux Mint did the same two years > back, except with the latter it only took less than one minute to go > into that state even while you were interacting with it. With Knoppix, > it looks like, as long as you are active and are interacting with it, it > runs and runs, but when you don't interact with it, it goes into that > state. I've tested this three times so far! > > Is it the computer or Knoppix? It's called....Crash. https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=Knoppix+crash -- The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable, to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, and challenge the unchallengeable.