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Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome

Started byCrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge>
First post2025-04-23 09:11 -0400
Last post2025-04-25 01:27 +0000
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  Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-23 09:11 -0400
    Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-04-24 12:43 +0000
      Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-24 09:07 -0400
        Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-04-25 01:25 +0000
          Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-25 05:12 +0000
            Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-04-26 02:53 +0000
          Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> - 2025-04-25 19:27 +0000
            Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-25 15:38 -0400
            Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-26 00:42 +0000
      Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-24 13:31 +0000
        Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-24 09:47 -0400
          Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-04-25 01:28 +0000
          Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-25 12:06 +0000
            Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-25 23:16 +0000
              Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-26 00:50 +0000
                Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-26 01:21 +0000
                  Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-04-26 03:03 +0000
                    Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-26 07:34 +0000
                      Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-04-26 08:04 +0000
                Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-04-26 03:00 +0000
                  Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-26 10:09 +0000
                    Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2025-04-26 05:53 -0500
                      Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-26 11:02 +0000
                        Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-26 23:00 +0000
                          Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-27 07:24 +0000
                            Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-27 08:50 +0000
                              Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-28 12:41 +0000
                                Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-29 02:50 +0000
                                  Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-29 13:52 +0000
                        Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-04-27 06:35 +0000
                          Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-27 07:18 +0000
                        Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2025-04-27 08:45 -0500
                          Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-28 11:44 +0000
                            Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2025-04-28 17:05 -0500
                              Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2025-04-28 17:11 -0500
                            Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-29 02:51 +0000
                              Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-29 09:02 -0400
                                Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-29 14:08 +0000
                                  Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-29 11:07 -0400
                                    Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-30 10:24 +0000
                                      Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-30 09:13 -0400
                                        Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-05-01 14:15 +0000
                                          Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-01 14:42 +0000
                                            Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-05-02 15:03 +0000
                                              Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-02 20:33 +0000
                                                Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-05-03 08:18 -0400
                                                  Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-03 21:34 +0000
                                          Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-05-01 18:43 -0400
                                            Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-02 00:17 +0000
                                              Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-05-01 21:47 -0400
                                                Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-02 07:43 +0000
                                                  Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-05-02 09:13 -0400
                                                    Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-02 20:16 +0000
                                                      Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-05-02 20:47 +0000
                                                      Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-05-02 19:31 -0400
                                                        Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-05-03 00:13 +0000
                                                          Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-05-02 22:16 -0400
                                                            Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-05-03 10:50 +0000
                                                              Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-05-03 09:31 -0400
                                                                Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-05-04 09:51 +0000
                                                                  Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-05-04 08:23 -0400
                                                                    Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-05-04 13:38 +0000
                                                                      Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-05-04 18:00 -0400
                                                                        Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-05-05 11:03 +0000
                                                                          Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-05-05 08:40 -0400
                                                            Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-05-04 14:40 +0000
                                                              Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-05-04 11:52 -0400
                                                              Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-04 20:05 +0000
                                                                Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-05-05 04:50 +0000
                                                                  Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-05-05 18:50 +0000
                                                                    Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-05-05 14:55 -0400
                                                          Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-03 04:29 +0000
                                            Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-05-02 15:20 +0000
                                              Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-05-02 11:28 -0400
                                                Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-05-03 00:11 +0000
                                                  Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-05-02 20:15 -0400
                                                    Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-05-03 01:02 +0000
                                                      Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-05-02 22:24 -0400
                                                        Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-05-03 10:56 +0000
                                                          Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-05-03 08:29 -0400
                                                          Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-05-03 10:39 -0400
                                                            Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-05-04 10:04 +0000
                                                              Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-05-04 08:24 -0400
                                                              Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-04 20:10 +0000
                                                              Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-05-05 04:48 +0000
                                                                Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-05-05 08:36 -0400
                                                                  Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-05 17:06 +0000
                                                                    Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-05-05 14:04 -0400
                                                                      Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-05 18:59 +0000
                                                                        Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-05-05 15:24 -0400
                                                                          Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-06 02:21 +0000
                                                                            Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-05-06 11:00 -0400
                                                                              Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-05-06 20:58 +0000
                                                                                Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-05-06 19:43 -0400
                                                                                  Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-05-08 00:29 +0000
                                                                                    Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-08 03:28 +0000
                                                                                      Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-05-08 10:02 -0400
                                                                                Linux again (was: Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome) vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-05-07 04:18 +0000
                                                                                  Re: Linux again (was: Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome) Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-05-07 00:56 -0400
                                                                        Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-05-06 07:13 +0000
                                                                          Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-06 08:04 +0000
                                                                            Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-05-06 20:43 +0000
                                                                      Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-05-06 06:54 +0000
                                                                      Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-05-07 17:30 +0000
                                                                        Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-05-08 07:06 -0400
                                                                    Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-05-06 06:53 +0000
                                                                  Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-05-06 06:42 +0000
                                                                    Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-05-06 11:02 -0400
                                                          Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-03 19:36 +0000
                                                    Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-03 04:02 +0000
                                                      Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-05-03 08:16 -0400
                                                        Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-03 21:23 +0000
                                                          Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-05-03 19:45 -0400
                                                            Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-04 02:06 +0000
                                                              Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-05-04 07:37 -0400
                                      Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-30 18:17 +0000
                                        Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-05-01 14:03 +0000
                                          Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-05-01 13:52 -0400
                                  Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-29 22:49 +0000
                    Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-26 22:57 +0000
                      Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-27 07:33 +0000
                        Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-27 08:51 +0000
                          Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-28 12:02 +0000
                            Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-29 02:47 +0000
                        Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-04-27 09:12 +0000
                          Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-28 01:15 +0000
                          Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-28 11:51 +0000
                            Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-04-28 08:37 -0400
                            Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-29 02:48 +0000
                        Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2025-04-27 08:49 -0500
                          Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-28 11:45 +0000
                    Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-04-27 06:33 +0000
                      Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-27 07:31 +0000
                        Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-27 08:53 +0000
                          Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2025-04-27 08:51 -0500
                            Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-04-28 07:33 +0000
                              Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-28 08:45 -0400
                                Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2025-04-28 17:42 -0500
                                  Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-28 18:51 -0400
                                    Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-29 02:26 +0000
                                Re: Evolution (was Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome) Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-29 02:54 +0000
                          Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-28 12:33 +0000
                            Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-29 02:56 +0000
                              Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-29 13:59 +0000
                                Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-06-10 01:06 +0000
                        Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-04-28 07:27 +0000
                          Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-28 12:14 +0000
                            Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-29 02:53 +0000
                              Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-29 14:01 +0000
                                Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-06-10 01:05 +0000
                  Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-26 08:15 -0400
                    Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-26 23:03 +0000
                      Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-04-27 06:46 +0000
                        Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-27 07:41 +0000
                      Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-27 14:30 -0400
                        Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-28 02:51 +0000
                          Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-28 08:33 -0400
                    Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-04-27 06:45 +0000
                      Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-27 08:15 +0000
                        Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-04-28 07:35 +0000
                      Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-27 14:41 -0400
                        Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-04-28 07:42 +0000
                          Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-28 11:40 +0000
                            Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-04-28 12:25 +0000
                            Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-28 08:49 -0400
                              Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-28 18:03 +0000
                                Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-04-28 20:01 +0000
                                  Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-28 16:47 -0400
                                    Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-04-29 06:15 +0000
                                      Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-29 09:23 -0400
                                        Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-29 14:21 +0000
                                          Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-29 11:24 -0400
                                            Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-04-29 21:11 +0000
                                              Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-29 17:33 -0400
                                                Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-04-29 22:14 +0000
                                                  Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-29 19:37 -0400
                                                    Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-30 00:25 +0000
                                                      Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-04-30 00:30 +0000
                                                        Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-04-29 18:22 -0700
                                                          Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-04-30 01:39 +0000
                                                          Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-30 08:53 -0400
                                                            Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-05-01 13:54 +0000
                                                              Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-05-01 13:28 -0400
                                                                Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-02 00:09 +0000
                                                                  Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-05-01 21:45 -0400
                                                                Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-05-02 15:31 +0000
                                                                  Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-05-02 11:41 -0400
                                                        Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-04-30 10:15 +0000
                                                          Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-30 09:07 -0400
                                                      Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-04-29 21:03 -0400
                                                        Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-05-02 22:56 +0000
                                                          Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-05-02 19:48 -0400
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#689747

FromCrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge>
Date2025-04-30 09:13 -0400
Message-ID<hmpQP.125857$0qs5.26756@fx07.iad>
In reply to#689739
On 2025-04-30 06:24, Borax Man wrote:

< snipped for brevity >

>> As long as manufacturers don't give people the option to buy their
>> hardware without Windows bundled on, it will retain much of its
>> dominance. If ever manufacturers are being treated poorly by Microsoft,
>> it might be beneficial for them to offer a choice upon initial bootup
>> the way the Endeavour OS installer does. Before you go through with
>> installation, it gives you a list of desktop environments you can use as
>> screenshots of how they look. This would work, but I believe Microsoft
>> makes it impossible for manufacturers to offer that kind of choice. If
>> I'm not mistaken, they tell manufacturers that if they want to carry
>> Windows, they cannot offer anything else. This applies for the hardware
>> found in stores, at the very least.
>>
> 
> To be honest, it was many years of using a PC before I too understood
> that there could be a viable alternative on the PC, and I was more "tech
> literate" than average.  This was in the 90s.  I knew of OS2 and some
> toy OS's.  I started to get annoyed with Windows, and desire features
> and abilities that it was lacking.  When I found that Linux was a thing,
> it kind of mostly met what I was looking for (more power!).

I was always curious, so it didn't take long for me to learn that there 
were things other than DOS back in the day. I got acquainted with 
Windows 3.0 fairly quickly, learned abut MacOS quickly thereafter and 
soon developed an interest in OS/2 since my nerdy cousin assured me that 
it was better than everything under the sun. Admittedly, I remained in 
the Windows camp during that time but kept trying Linux out from about 
1994 or 1995 on. I recall installing Slackware on my PC through 
floppies, but I had no idea how to get much done. I tried again in 1998, 
but I couldn't get sound to work and the resolution couldn't get past 
800x600 (I had no idea what I was doing). By 1999, I was ready to move 
but Linux itself wasn't entirely ready for what I wanted to do. I only 
really started using it as the main OS on my Dell laptop around 2008 (it 
worked great on that), but even then I kept Windows as my overall main 
operating system. Once the PRISM revelations emerged, my interest in 
Linux grew and I kept trying to make it my default operating system with 
various degrees of success. Now, I can confidently say that there are 
way more benefits than there are drawbacks, no matter what hardware I 
run it on.

>>> I moved away decades ago.  I've gotten others to move away, but the
>>> numbers dont lie.  Most people just take the pain and live with Windows.
>>
>> Windows does offer a good operating system, but the pain becomes worse
>> when you are aware that you can avoid a good chunk of it. If you are
>> like my students and don't even know what your operating system is,
>> you're likely to just put up with it. If you grew up with technology and
>> saw it progress, you're likely to be knowledgeable and aware that Linux
>> offers some respite. I'm an example of that. I can tolerate all sorts of
>> bullshit but even I have my breaking point.
>>
> 
> One of the barriers, is people cannot really imagine anything better.
> People just accepted in the 90s that computers were unstable and
> crashed.  It was just a given, but when my friends asked me about Linux,
> and I showed that I could burn a CD, listen to music and download a file
> and browse *at the same time*, they were impressed.  Computers didn't
> need to crash.  You can do reptetive tasks far, far more efficiently
> than clicking through a series of GUI elements 24 times over.  These are
> moments where people can realise they can do things, things they didn't
> think they could do. Emacs was an experience like that too.  For year
> just using basic editing, then finding you can select words, sentences,
> transpose, etc.  I use emacs at work, (mostly for org mode) and people
> think I'm using DOS, but when they see how I manage my todo lists, it
> seems like magic.

I found Linux to be just as crashy as Windows in the late 90s. I had 
hope that BeOS might penetrate the market since it was a lot more robust 
than the two, but it went nowhere. I would say that Linux's core was 
always quite stable but everything atop it not so much. In my opinion, 
it only became rock solid in the last decade or so.

-- 
God be with you,

CrudeSausage
KDE & LibreOffice supporter
John 14:6

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#689798

FromBorax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com>
Date2025-05-01 14:15 +0000
Message-ID<slrn10170g7.2qk.rotflol2@geidiprime.bvh>
In reply to#689747
On 2025-04-30, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 2025-04-30 06:24, Borax Man wrote:
>
>< snipped for brevity >
>
>> 
>> To be honest, it was many years of using a PC before I too understood
>> that there could be a viable alternative on the PC, and I was more "tech
>> literate" than average.  This was in the 90s.  I knew of OS2 and some
>> toy OS's.  I started to get annoyed with Windows, and desire features
>> and abilities that it was lacking.  When I found that Linux was a thing,
>> it kind of mostly met what I was looking for (more power!).
>
> I was always curious, so it didn't take long for me to learn that there 
> were things other than DOS back in the day. I got acquainted with 
> Windows 3.0 fairly quickly, learned abut MacOS quickly thereafter and 
> soon developed an interest in OS/2 since my nerdy cousin assured me that 
> it was better than everything under the sun. Admittedly, I remained in 
> the Windows camp during that time but kept trying Linux out from about 
> 1994 or 1995 on. I recall installing Slackware on my PC through 
> floppies, but I had no idea how to get much done. I tried again in 1998, 
> but I couldn't get sound to work and the resolution couldn't get past 
> 800x600 (I had no idea what I was doing). By 1999, I was ready to move 
> but Linux itself wasn't entirely ready for what I wanted to do. I only 
> really started using it as the main OS on my Dell laptop around 2008 (it 
> worked great on that), but even then I kept Windows as my overall main 
> operating system. Once the PRISM revelations emerged, my interest in 
> Linux grew and I kept trying to make it my default operating system with 
> various degrees of success. Now, I can confidently say that there are 
> way more benefits than there are drawbacks, no matter what hardware I 
> run it on.
>

I had seen references to Linux here and there on the Internet in the
late 90s, but I just supposed that as a system I would not either be
able to run it, or make good use of it.  I was invested in DOS, DOS
games and programs, programming in DOS so while I didn't like Windows
much, I wasn't that interested in leaving the ecosystem I did
understand.

However by 1999-2000, after having to reinstall windows again and again,
and knowing that staying in the past wasn't the way forward, thats when
I took Linux seriously, after hearing a bit more about it.  I still knew
very little, except it was good for the Internet and that it might be
good for "power users".

I was browsing a newsagency late 2000, saw a copy of Linux Format with a
Definite Linux 7.0 cover disk and decided to give it a try.  Then I
learned about it being a Unix close, about the Free Software movement,
and saw a bit more of a world of computing, with a long history that I
had seen references to, but was now a part of.


>>>
>>> Windows does offer a good operating system, but the pain becomes worse
>>> when you are aware that you can avoid a good chunk of it. If you are
>>> like my students and don't even know what your operating system is,
>>> you're likely to just put up with it. If you grew up with technology and
>>> saw it progress, you're likely to be knowledgeable and aware that Linux
>>> offers some respite. I'm an example of that. I can tolerate all sorts of
>>> bullshit but even I have my breaking point.
>>>
>> 
>> One of the barriers, is people cannot really imagine anything better.
>> People just accepted in the 90s that computers were unstable and
>> crashed.  It was just a given, but when my friends asked me about Linux,
>> and I showed that I could burn a CD, listen to music and download a file
>> and browse *at the same time*, they were impressed.  Computers didn't
>> need to crash.  You can do reptetive tasks far, far more efficiently
>> than clicking through a series of GUI elements 24 times over.  These are
>> moments where people can realise they can do things, things they didn't
>> think they could do. Emacs was an experience like that too.  For year
>> just using basic editing, then finding you can select words, sentences,
>> transpose, etc.  I use emacs at work, (mostly for org mode) and people
>> think I'm using DOS, but when they see how I manage my todo lists, it
>> seems like magic.
>
> I found Linux to be just as crashy as Windows in the late 90s. I had 
> hope that BeOS might penetrate the market since it was a lot more robust 
> than the two, but it went nowhere. I would say that Linux's core was 
> always quite stable but everything atop it not so much. In my opinion, 
> it only became rock solid in the last decade or so.
>

That was my experience too.  When I first used it, programs would just
dissapear, and leave a "core" file.  Individual programs DID crash more
than in Windows, but they rarely took the system down with it.  There
were fewer crashes on Windows, but they were often more catastrophic,
taking everything down with it.  A Linux program crash, well, it just
vanished.  At least everything else was usually untouchged.  When I
found I could telnet into the system, on the occasions the screen did
freeze, I could either kill the process, kill X, or shut the system
down, at least avoiding an unclean unmount.

But I would say by Red Hat 7.3 (the 2003 one), it was much better, and
improved since then.  As has, admittedly, Windows, though it has other
janky behaviour.

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#689802

Fromrbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Date2025-05-01 14:42 +0000
Message-ID<m7hfhuF8mvgU2@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#689798
On Thu, 1 May 2025 14:15:35 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:

> That was my experience too.  When I first used it, programs would just
> dissapear, and leave a "core" file.  Individual programs DID crash more
> than in Windows, but they rarely took the system down with it.  There
> were fewer crashes on Windows, but they were often more catastrophic,
> taking everything down with it.  A Linux program crash, well, it just
> vanished.  At least everything else was usually untouchged.  When I
> found I could telnet into the system, on the occasions the screen did
> freeze, I could either kill the process, kill X, or shut the system
> down, at least avoiding an unclean unmount.

Depending on how the program was built you could load the core into gdb 
and get useful information on why it crashed. windbg sometimes worked but 
more often was a disappointment. 

For a developer tools on Linux like valgrind or ElectricFence were 
superior to anything on Windows like Purify or BoundsChecker. The Windows 
tools not only were inferior but were expensive. 

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#689860

FromBorax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com>
Date2025-05-02 15:03 +0000
Message-ID<slrn1019nl5.2rt.rotflol2@geidiprime.bvh>
In reply to#689802
On 2025-05-01, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 1 May 2025 14:15:35 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:
>
>> That was my experience too.  When I first used it, programs would just
>> dissapear, and leave a "core" file.  Individual programs DID crash more
>> than in Windows, but they rarely took the system down with it.  There
>> were fewer crashes on Windows, but they were often more catastrophic,
>> taking everything down with it.  A Linux program crash, well, it just
>> vanished.  At least everything else was usually untouchged.  When I
>> found I could telnet into the system, on the occasions the screen did
>> freeze, I could either kill the process, kill X, or shut the system
>> down, at least avoiding an unclean unmount.
>
> Depending on how the program was built you could load the core into gdb 
> and get useful information on why it crashed. windbg sometimes worked but 
> more often was a disappointment. 
>
> For a developer tools on Linux like valgrind or ElectricFence were 
> superior to anything on Windows like Purify or BoundsChecker. The Windows 
> tools not only were inferior but were expensive. 

For someone who was new, I didn't even know what these mysterious files
were!  They just were yellow circles with faces, like a emojie with
croses for eyes and I think a tongue hanging out, as if dead.  Or a
bomb.  They just appeared on the filesystem and could be large.

I just deleted them.

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#689872

Fromrbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Date2025-05-02 20:33 +0000
Message-ID<m7koh8FouscU2@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#689860
On Fri, 2 May 2025 15:03:01 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:

> For someone who was new, I didn't even know what these mysterious files
> were!  They just were yellow circles with faces, like a emojie with
> croses for eyes and I think a tongue hanging out, as if dead.  Or a
> bomb.  They just appeared on the filesystem and could be large.

I think it might have been SUSE but if you ran as root the background 
changed to a red field with big black smoking bombs like the ones seen in 
cartoons. 

I think Ubuntu was the first distro I ran into where root sort of 
disappeared.  

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#689921

FromChris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
Date2025-05-03 08:18 -0400
Message-ID<vv51iq$3g7ee$2@dont-email.me>
In reply to#689872
rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> On Fri, 2 May 2025 15:03:01 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:
>
>> For someone who was new, I didn't even know what these mysterious files
>> were!  They just were yellow circles with faces, like a emojie with
>> croses for eyes and I think a tongue hanging out, as if dead.  Or a
>> bomb.  They just appeared on the filesystem and could be large.
>
> I think it might have been SUSE but if you ran as root the background 
> changed to a red field with big black smoking bombs like the ones seen in 
> cartoons. 

Reminds me of the "cherry bomb" exceptions on the Atari ST.

> I think Ubuntu was the first distro I ran into where root sort of 
> disappeared.  

$ sudo su 

    :-)

-- 
If there was any justice in the world, "trust" would be a four-letter word.

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#689934

Fromrbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Date2025-05-03 21:34 +0000
Message-ID<m7ngesF7t21U2@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#689921
On Sat, 3 May 2025 08:18:34 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

>> I think Ubuntu was the first distro I ran into where root sort of
>> disappeared.
> 
> $ sudo su

Yeah, but sudo asks for your credentials and you have to be in the sudoers 
list. Back around 2000 we were very security conscious. All the AIX and 
Linux boxes all had the same password for root. It was handy. 

I don't know if AIX had sudo but we had a app called gosu which everybody 
compiled, set to 4755, and chown'd to root while logged in as root. 

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#689820

FromCrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge>
Date2025-05-01 18:43 -0400
Message-ID<0OSQP.28898$AoB5.17918@fx09.iad>
In reply to#689798
On 2025-05-01 10:15, Borax Man wrote:
> On 2025-04-30, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>> On 2025-04-30 06:24, Borax Man wrote:
>>
>> < snipped for brevity >
>>
>>>
>>> To be honest, it was many years of using a PC before I too understood
>>> that there could be a viable alternative on the PC, and I was more "tech
>>> literate" than average.  This was in the 90s.  I knew of OS2 and some
>>> toy OS's.  I started to get annoyed with Windows, and desire features
>>> and abilities that it was lacking.  When I found that Linux was a thing,
>>> it kind of mostly met what I was looking for (more power!).
>>
>> I was always curious, so it didn't take long for me to learn that there
>> were things other than DOS back in the day. I got acquainted with
>> Windows 3.0 fairly quickly, learned abut MacOS quickly thereafter and
>> soon developed an interest in OS/2 since my nerdy cousin assured me that
>> it was better than everything under the sun. Admittedly, I remained in
>> the Windows camp during that time but kept trying Linux out from about
>> 1994 or 1995 on. I recall installing Slackware on my PC through
>> floppies, but I had no idea how to get much done. I tried again in 1998,
>> but I couldn't get sound to work and the resolution couldn't get past
>> 800x600 (I had no idea what I was doing). By 1999, I was ready to move
>> but Linux itself wasn't entirely ready for what I wanted to do. I only
>> really started using it as the main OS on my Dell laptop around 2008 (it
>> worked great on that), but even then I kept Windows as my overall main
>> operating system. Once the PRISM revelations emerged, my interest in
>> Linux grew and I kept trying to make it my default operating system with
>> various degrees of success. Now, I can confidently say that there are
>> way more benefits than there are drawbacks, no matter what hardware I
>> run it on.
>>
> 
> I had seen references to Linux here and there on the Internet in the
> late 90s, but I just supposed that as a system I would not either be
> able to run it, or make good use of it.  I was invested in DOS, DOS
> games and programs, programming in DOS so while I didn't like Windows
> much, I wasn't that interested in leaving the ecosystem I did
> understand.
> 
> However by 1999-2000, after having to reinstall windows again and again,
> and knowing that staying in the past wasn't the way forward, thats when
> I took Linux seriously, after hearing a bit more about it.  I still knew
> very little, except it was good for the Internet and that it might be
> good for "power users".
> 
> I was browsing a newsagency late 2000, saw a copy of Linux Format with a
> Definite Linux 7.0 cover disk and decided to give it a try.  Then I
> learned about it being a Unix close, about the Free Software movement,
> and saw a bit more of a world of computing, with a long history that I
> had seen references to, but was now a part of.

I think that Linux would have been adopted faster in the late 90s has 
the Linux zealots at the time not been lying through their teeth and 
claiming that Linux was stable and worked perfectly across the board. 
Most people didn't know a thing about repositories and installing 
software through, didn't understand what open-source was and what its 
benefits could be and definitely weren't open to persevering with the 
operating system when their hardware didn't work the way that it should.

>> I found Linux to be just as crashy as Windows in the late 90s. I had
>> hope that BeOS might penetrate the market since it was a lot more robust
>> than the two, but it went nowhere. I would say that Linux's core was
>> always quite stable but everything atop it not so much. In my opinion,
>> it only became rock solid in the last decade or so.
>>
> 
> That was my experience too.  When I first used it, programs would just
> dissapear, and leave a "core" file.  Individual programs DID crash more
> than in Windows, but they rarely took the system down with it.  There
> were fewer crashes on Windows, but they were often more catastrophic,
> taking everything down with it.  A Linux program crash, well, it just
> vanished.  At least everything else was usually untouchged.  When I
> found I could telnet into the system, on the occasions the screen did
> freeze, I could either kill the process, kill X, or shut the system
> down, at least avoiding an unclean unmount.
> 
> But I would say by Red Hat 7.3 (the 2003 one), it was much better, and
> improved since then.  As has, admittedly, Windows, though it has other
> janky behaviour.

I had a lot of luck with the SUSE Linux versions back in the late 90s 
and early 2000s. Tumbleweed was also the first Linux to work perfectly 
on my old MSI for suspend (admittedly, Linux worked perfectly on my old 
AMD-centric Dell laptop in the late 2000s). Windows has always been fine 
for me, but I would also reinstall that thing once every three months or 
so. Even in that short time though, it managed to screw up from an 
update or corrupted system files.


-- 
God be with you,

CrudeSausage
KDE & LibreOffice supporter
John 14:6

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#689830

Fromrbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Date2025-05-02 00:17 +0000
Message-ID<m7ih82Fdhc7U4@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#689820
On Thu, 1 May 2025 18:43:07 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

> I had a lot of luck with the SUSE Linux versions back in the late 90s
> and early 2000s.

I liked SUSE and still have a version where it came in a shrink wrapped 
box with hardcopy documentation and the whole enchilada on CDs. (DVDs?)

I initially had problems with 13.2. By default it formatted the boot 
partition with btrfs. Grub didn't care for that and I'm not sure that it 
does now. I selected ext4 and all was good.  I liked it but missed the 
leap to Leap so ran it to well past its expiration date. The box got a 
upgraded processor, SSD, and Fedora.

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#689836

FromCrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge>
Date2025-05-01 21:47 -0400
Message-ID<avVQP.28969$quzb.24237@fx11.iad>
In reply to#689830
On 2025-05-01 20:17, rbowman wrote:
> On Thu, 1 May 2025 18:43:07 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
> 
>> I had a lot of luck with the SUSE Linux versions back in the late 90s
>> and early 2000s.
> 
> I liked SUSE and still have a version where it came in a shrink wrapped
> box with hardcopy documentation and the whole enchilada on CDs. (DVDs?)
> 
> I initially had problems with 13.2. By default it formatted the boot
> partition with btrfs. Grub didn't care for that and I'm not sure that it
> does now. I selected ext4 and all was good.  I liked it but missed the
> leap to Leap so ran it to well past its expiration date. The box got a
> upgraded processor, SSD, and Fedora.

I don't know whether SUSE handles or doesn't handle btrfs but Endeavour 
runs it great. It's what I use on both my laptops, and I even formatted 
my portable SSD in it. So far, so good.

-- 
God be with you,

CrudeSausage
KDE & LibreOffice supporter
John 14:6

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#689849

Fromrbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Date2025-05-02 07:43 +0000
Message-ID<m7jbd4Fi49mU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#689836
On Thu, 1 May 2025 21:47:50 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:


> I don't know whether SUSE handles or doesn't handle btrfs but Endeavour
> runs it great. It's what I use on both my laptops, and I even formatted
> my portable SSD in it. So far, so good.

run 'df -T'.  Fedora uses btrfs -- except for /boot, which is ext4. That 
was the default. Ubuntu uses ext4, but /boot/efi is vfat.  Raspberry Pi 
OS, also in the Debian family, uses ext4 but /boot/firmware is also vfat. 
I believe the vfat is a UEFI thing. The Fedora box does not have a UEFI 
bios.

There seems to be something with @.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/967172/grub2-does-not-detect-btrfs-
partition

The OpenSUSE I was installing for a dual boot was 13.2 from 2014. SUSE was 
one of the first distros to use btrfs. It was still a little experimental. 
Whatever the case it didn't work with btrfs at the time. 

The filesystem is another one of those things I don't care about as long 
as it works. I only get involved when it doesn't. My preference was 
ReiserFS but somehow it became unpopular when Reiser solved his nagging 
wife problem. I believe it was finally removed from the kernel in 6.13.

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#689856

FromCrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge>
Date2025-05-02 09:13 -0400
Message-ID<my3RP.5$LiG1.1@fx16.iad>
In reply to#689849
On 2025-05-02 03:43, rbowman wrote:
> On Thu, 1 May 2025 21:47:50 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
> 
> 
>> I don't know whether SUSE handles or doesn't handle btrfs but Endeavour
>> runs it great. It's what I use on both my laptops, and I even formatted
>> my portable SSD in it. So far, so good.
> 
> run 'df -T'.  Fedora uses btrfs -- except for /boot, which is ext4. That
> was the default. Ubuntu uses ext4, but /boot/efi is vfat.  Raspberry Pi
> OS, also in the Debian family, uses ext4 but /boot/firmware is also vfat.
> I believe the vfat is a UEFI thing. The Fedora box does not have a UEFI
> bios.
> 
> There seems to be something with @.
> 
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/967172/grub2-does-not-detect-btrfs-
> partition
> 
> The OpenSUSE I was installing for a dual boot was 13.2 from 2014. SUSE was
> one of the first distros to use btrfs. It was still a little experimental.
> Whatever the case it didn't work with btrfs at the time.
> 
> The filesystem is another one of those things I don't care about as long
> as it works. I only get involved when it doesn't. My preference was
> ReiserFS but somehow it became unpopular when Reiser solved his nagging
> wife problem. I believe it was finally removed from the kernel in 6.13.

I didn't know much about ReiserFS back around 2004, but every 
publication was saying that it was a huge improvement over everything 
else so I used it in the limited time I ran Gentoo. I can't speak to its 
worth. In fact, I'm happy you mentioned it because I largely forgot 
about it.

-- 
God be with you,

CrudeSausage
KDE & LibreOffice supporter
John 14:6

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#689871

Fromrbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Date2025-05-02 20:16 +0000
Message-ID<m7kngpFouscU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#689856
On Fri, 2 May 2025 09:13:55 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

> I didn't know much about ReiserFS back around 2004, but every
> publication was saying that it was a huge improvement over everything
> else so I used it in the limited time I ran Gentoo. I can't speak to its
> worth. In fact, I'm happy you mentioned it because I largely forgot
> about it.

It was a journaling file system, which ext2 was not and faster for some 
operations. Linux was trailing the pack. AIX was journaled in the '90s, as 
was NTFS. ext3 came out in 2001, the same year as ReiserFS but it took a 
while to catch on. Distros cited technical reasons for going to ext3 
rather than Reiser being on trial for murder. 

btrfs owes more to ReiserFS 4 than ext3/ext4. Without the notoriety 
ReiserFS would probably have been developed instead. Not a good idea to 
name a project after yourself although Torvalds has been able to suppress 
his murderous impulses. 

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#689874

FromFarley Flud <ff@linux.rocks>
Date2025-05-02 20:47 +0000
Message-ID<pan$415b4$180b3987$cb7e6350$7b6e4dfa@linux.rocks>
In reply to#689871
On 2 May 2025 20:16:26 GMT, rbowman wrote:

> 
> It was a journaling file system, which ext2 was not and faster for some 
> operations. Linux was trailing the pack. AIX was journaled in the '90s, as 
> was NTFS. ext3 came out in 2001, the same year as ReiserFS but it took a 
> while to catch on.
>

Reiserfs is a filesystem that supports tail packing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_suballocation

The ext* filesystems do not support tail packing.

Btrfs supports tail packing but I would never trust my data to that
piece of shit.

If one has huge numbers of very small files then tail packing
is a great advantage.  That's why I always used reiserfs until
those fucking bastards deprecated it.



-- 
Systemd: solving all the problems that you never knew you had.

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#689885

FromCrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge>
Date2025-05-02 19:31 -0400
Message-ID<cBcRP.21790$J0J2.5159@fx18.iad>
In reply to#689871
On 2025-05-02 16:16, rbowman wrote:
> On Fri, 2 May 2025 09:13:55 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
> 
>> I didn't know much about ReiserFS back around 2004, but every
>> publication was saying that it was a huge improvement over everything
>> else so I used it in the limited time I ran Gentoo. I can't speak to its
>> worth. In fact, I'm happy you mentioned it because I largely forgot
>> about it.
> 
> It was a journaling file system, which ext2 was not and faster for some
> operations. Linux was trailing the pack. AIX was journaled in the '90s, as
> was NTFS. ext3 came out in 2001, the same year as ReiserFS but it took a
> while to catch on. Distros cited technical reasons for going to ext3
> rather than Reiser being on trial for murder.
> 
> btrfs owes more to ReiserFS 4 than ext3/ext4. Without the notoriety
> ReiserFS would probably have been developed instead. Not a good idea to
> name a project after yourself although Torvalds has been able to suppress
> his murderous impulses.

I can't recall what made me want to try ReiserFS but I believe it was 
the journaling function. As a user, you don't really see any of the 
benefits, but at the time I had no idea that it wasn't a new feature at 
all. I was completely unaware that NTFS already had it.

-- 
God be with you,

CrudeSausage
KDE & LibreOffice supporter
John 14:6

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#689894

FromBorax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com>
Date2025-05-03 00:13 +0000
Message-ID<slrn101antt.3om.rotflol2@geidiprime.bvh>
In reply to#689885
On 2025-05-02, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 2025-05-02 16:16, rbowman wrote:
>> On Fri, 2 May 2025 09:13:55 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>> 
>>> I didn't know much about ReiserFS back around 2004, but every
>>> publication was saying that it was a huge improvement over everything
>>> else so I used it in the limited time I ran Gentoo. I can't speak to its
>>> worth. In fact, I'm happy you mentioned it because I largely forgot
>>> about it.
>> 
>> It was a journaling file system, which ext2 was not and faster for some
>> operations. Linux was trailing the pack. AIX was journaled in the '90s, as
>> was NTFS. ext3 came out in 2001, the same year as ReiserFS but it took a
>> while to catch on. Distros cited technical reasons for going to ext3
>> rather than Reiser being on trial for murder.
>> 
>> btrfs owes more to ReiserFS 4 than ext3/ext4. Without the notoriety
>> ReiserFS would probably have been developed instead. Not a good idea to
>> name a project after yourself although Torvalds has been able to suppress
>> his murderous impulses.
>
> I can't recall what made me want to try ReiserFS but I believe it was 
> the journaling function. As a user, you don't really see any of the 
> benefits, but at the time I had no idea that it wasn't a new feature at 
> all. I was completely unaware that NTFS already had it.
>

It was apparently much better when there were lots of small files, but
also a bit more prone to corruption.  ext3 has been rock solid for me,
NEVER failed me, and the point of a filesystem is to store my files
reliably.  Most of the time, you won't notice a performance difference
if you're just a regular desktop/laptop user.

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#689899

FromCrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge>
Date2025-05-02 22:16 -0400
Message-ID<M%eRP.2$RXsc.0@fx36.iad>
In reply to#689894
On 2025-05-02 20:13, Borax Man wrote:
> On 2025-05-02, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>> On 2025-05-02 16:16, rbowman wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2 May 2025 09:13:55 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>>>
>>>> I didn't know much about ReiserFS back around 2004, but every
>>>> publication was saying that it was a huge improvement over everything
>>>> else so I used it in the limited time I ran Gentoo. I can't speak to its
>>>> worth. In fact, I'm happy you mentioned it because I largely forgot
>>>> about it.
>>>
>>> It was a journaling file system, which ext2 was not and faster for some
>>> operations. Linux was trailing the pack. AIX was journaled in the '90s, as
>>> was NTFS. ext3 came out in 2001, the same year as ReiserFS but it took a
>>> while to catch on. Distros cited technical reasons for going to ext3
>>> rather than Reiser being on trial for murder.
>>>
>>> btrfs owes more to ReiserFS 4 than ext3/ext4. Without the notoriety
>>> ReiserFS would probably have been developed instead. Not a good idea to
>>> name a project after yourself although Torvalds has been able to suppress
>>> his murderous impulses.
>>
>> I can't recall what made me want to try ReiserFS but I believe it was
>> the journaling function. As a user, you don't really see any of the
>> benefits, but at the time I had no idea that it wasn't a new feature at
>> all. I was completely unaware that NTFS already had it.
>>
> 
> It was apparently much better when there were lots of small files, but
> also a bit more prone to corruption.  ext3 has been rock solid for me,
> NEVER failed me, and the point of a filesystem is to store my files
> reliably.  Most of the time, you won't notice a performance difference
> if you're just a regular desktop/laptop user.

Well, I can only hope that btrfs is an excellent filesystem for the long 
term because that's what I chose. Just to be safe, I set it up for 
snapshots, but I can't imagine it corrupting my data the way that 
Windows managed to.

-- 
God be with you,

CrudeSausage
KDE & LibreOffice supporter
John 14:6

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#689916

FromBorax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com>
Date2025-05-03 10:50 +0000
Message-ID<slrn101bt81.6df.rotflol2@geidiprime.bvh>
In reply to#689899
On 2025-05-03, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 2025-05-02 20:13, Borax Man wrote:
>> On 2025-05-02, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>> On 2025-05-02 16:16, rbowman wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 2 May 2025 09:13:55 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I didn't know much about ReiserFS back around 2004, but every
>>>>> publication was saying that it was a huge improvement over everything
>>>>> else so I used it in the limited time I ran Gentoo. I can't speak to its
>>>>> worth. In fact, I'm happy you mentioned it because I largely forgot
>>>>> about it.
>>>>
>>>> It was a journaling file system, which ext2 was not and faster for some
>>>> operations. Linux was trailing the pack. AIX was journaled in the '90s, as
>>>> was NTFS. ext3 came out in 2001, the same year as ReiserFS but it took a
>>>> while to catch on. Distros cited technical reasons for going to ext3
>>>> rather than Reiser being on trial for murder.
>>>>
>>>> btrfs owes more to ReiserFS 4 than ext3/ext4. Without the notoriety
>>>> ReiserFS would probably have been developed instead. Not a good idea to
>>>> name a project after yourself although Torvalds has been able to suppress
>>>> his murderous impulses.
>>>
>>> I can't recall what made me want to try ReiserFS but I believe it was
>>> the journaling function. As a user, you don't really see any of the
>>> benefits, but at the time I had no idea that it wasn't a new feature at
>>> all. I was completely unaware that NTFS already had it.
>>>
>> 
>> It was apparently much better when there were lots of small files, but
>> also a bit more prone to corruption.  ext3 has been rock solid for me,
>> NEVER failed me, and the point of a filesystem is to store my files
>> reliably.  Most of the time, you won't notice a performance difference
>> if you're just a regular desktop/laptop user.
>
> Well, I can only hope that btrfs is an excellent filesystem for the long 
> term because that's what I chose. Just to be safe, I set it up for 
> snapshots, but I can't imagine it corrupting my data the way that 
> Windows managed to.
>

I've used it for storage partitions, and on my wifes laptops.  So far
its been pretty good, and I've been using it for years now.

It has a bad repuation, but my personal experience is good.  I didn't
use it on this laptop, mostly because I wasn't going to use the
features, needed something basic.  Maybe I'll convert this laptop to
BTRFS.

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#689927

FromCrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge>
Date2025-05-03 09:31 -0400
Message-ID<iVoRP.39616$eDv2.38030@fx17.iad>
In reply to#689916
On 2025-05-03 06:50, Borax Man wrote:
> On 2025-05-03, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>> On 2025-05-02 20:13, Borax Man wrote:
>>> On 2025-05-02, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>>> On 2025-05-02 16:16, rbowman wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 2 May 2025 09:13:55 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I didn't know much about ReiserFS back around 2004, but every
>>>>>> publication was saying that it was a huge improvement over everything
>>>>>> else so I used it in the limited time I ran Gentoo. I can't speak to its
>>>>>> worth. In fact, I'm happy you mentioned it because I largely forgot
>>>>>> about it.
>>>>>
>>>>> It was a journaling file system, which ext2 was not and faster for some
>>>>> operations. Linux was trailing the pack. AIX was journaled in the '90s, as
>>>>> was NTFS. ext3 came out in 2001, the same year as ReiserFS but it took a
>>>>> while to catch on. Distros cited technical reasons for going to ext3
>>>>> rather than Reiser being on trial for murder.
>>>>>
>>>>> btrfs owes more to ReiserFS 4 than ext3/ext4. Without the notoriety
>>>>> ReiserFS would probably have been developed instead. Not a good idea to
>>>>> name a project after yourself although Torvalds has been able to suppress
>>>>> his murderous impulses.
>>>>
>>>> I can't recall what made me want to try ReiserFS but I believe it was
>>>> the journaling function. As a user, you don't really see any of the
>>>> benefits, but at the time I had no idea that it wasn't a new feature at
>>>> all. I was completely unaware that NTFS already had it.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It was apparently much better when there were lots of small files, but
>>> also a bit more prone to corruption.  ext3 has been rock solid for me,
>>> NEVER failed me, and the point of a filesystem is to store my files
>>> reliably.  Most of the time, you won't notice a performance difference
>>> if you're just a regular desktop/laptop user.
>>
>> Well, I can only hope that btrfs is an excellent filesystem for the long
>> term because that's what I chose. Just to be safe, I set it up for
>> snapshots, but I can't imagine it corrupting my data the way that
>> Windows managed to.
>>
> 
> I've used it for storage partitions, and on my wifes laptops.  So far
> its been pretty good, and I've been using it for years now.
> 
> It has a bad repuation, but my personal experience is good.  I didn't
> use it on this laptop, mostly because I wasn't going to use the
> features, needed something basic.  Maybe I'll convert this laptop to
> BTRFS.

I'm always wary of converting one filesystem to another. It just gives 
me the impression that things are very likely to break. I'm just hoping 
that I'm not wrong about btrfs and that despite its reputation with 
some, it's as rock-solid as I've been led to believe. If it isn't, I'll 
just reinstall and use ext4.

-- 
God be with you,

CrudeSausage
KDE & LibreOffice supporter
John 14:6

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#689952

FromBorax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com>
Date2025-05-04 09:51 +0000
Message-ID<slrn101ee4o.be1.rotflol2@geidiprime.bvh>
In reply to#689927
On 2025-05-03, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 2025-05-03 06:50, Borax Man wrote:
>> On 2025-05-03, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>> On 2025-05-02 20:13, Borax Man wrote:
>>>> On 2025-05-02, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>>>> On 2025-05-02 16:16, rbowman wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 2 May 2025 09:13:55 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I didn't know much about ReiserFS back around 2004, but every
>>>>>>> publication was saying that it was a huge improvement over everything
>>>>>>> else so I used it in the limited time I ran Gentoo. I can't speak to its
>>>>>>> worth. In fact, I'm happy you mentioned it because I largely forgot
>>>>>>> about it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It was a journaling file system, which ext2 was not and faster for some
>>>>>> operations. Linux was trailing the pack. AIX was journaled in the '90s, as
>>>>>> was NTFS. ext3 came out in 2001, the same year as ReiserFS but it took a
>>>>>> while to catch on. Distros cited technical reasons for going to ext3
>>>>>> rather than Reiser being on trial for murder.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> btrfs owes more to ReiserFS 4 than ext3/ext4. Without the notoriety
>>>>>> ReiserFS would probably have been developed instead. Not a good idea to
>>>>>> name a project after yourself although Torvalds has been able to suppress
>>>>>> his murderous impulses.
>>>>>
>>>>> I can't recall what made me want to try ReiserFS but I believe it was
>>>>> the journaling function. As a user, you don't really see any of the
>>>>> benefits, but at the time I had no idea that it wasn't a new feature at
>>>>> all. I was completely unaware that NTFS already had it.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It was apparently much better when there were lots of small files, but
>>>> also a bit more prone to corruption.  ext3 has been rock solid for me,
>>>> NEVER failed me, and the point of a filesystem is to store my files
>>>> reliably.  Most of the time, you won't notice a performance difference
>>>> if you're just a regular desktop/laptop user.
>>>
>>> Well, I can only hope that btrfs is an excellent filesystem for the long
>>> term because that's what I chose. Just to be safe, I set it up for
>>> snapshots, but I can't imagine it corrupting my data the way that
>>> Windows managed to.
>>>
>> 
>> I've used it for storage partitions, and on my wifes laptops.  So far
>> its been pretty good, and I've been using it for years now.
>> 
>> It has a bad repuation, but my personal experience is good.  I didn't
>> use it on this laptop, mostly because I wasn't going to use the
>> features, needed something basic.  Maybe I'll convert this laptop to
>> BTRFS.
>
> I'm always wary of converting one filesystem to another. It just gives 
> me the impression that things are very likely to break. I'm just hoping 
> that I'm not wrong about btrfs and that despite its reputation with 
> some, it's as rock-solid as I've been led to believe. If it isn't, I'll 
> just reinstall and use ext4.
>

Don't bother unless you've got a good reason to use it.  It's good, yes.
The snapshots are useful, but so are backups.  It does introduce some
new administrative things you have to take care of.

I use it on volumes where I specifically required snapshots, and needed
checksumming.  It's good, but I would still recommend EXT4 for
situations where BTRFS's additional features are not specifically
required.

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