Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!reader5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Physfitfreak Newsgroups: sci.physics,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.portable Subject: Re: Knoppix Operating System :-) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2023 18:11:08 -0600 Organization: Modern Human Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2023 00:11:08 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="1438120"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:jyynw7yASW0VJ9jIGjiDPSv/Ipw= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: X-User-ID: eJwNwokRwDAIA7CV8hgHxoGY7D9Ce5JtTt4DGmHvF+xZd0gcWEhPll6qu7CJitleJwAM7oiTol9WG0yuFR9ishWp Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:882598 comp.os.linux.advocacy:640497 comp.os.linux.portable:61 On 11/9/23 19:41, Physfitfreak wrote: > On 11/9/2023 1:41 PM, Esparquy Dobroserdov wrote: >> Physfit Freak wrote: >> >>> And I only have 4 g of RAM. The flash drive is 16 g. I will keep testing >>> various programs on it to see if all of them are working for this >>> minimal arrangement. No hard drives! ) It's a first for me. >> >> idiot, the kernel upgrades every week. Also, to load all the image into >> ram from slow usb, thereafter you can't run serious shit in physics, the >> swapping process would take decades, if used. You are an idiot. Piss off. > > Booting my computer via Knoppix flash drive takes less than 1/10th of > the time compared to booting time in Windows 10 on the same computer. 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.