Re: [SLUG] Linux on a business card

From: Derek Glidden (dglidden@illusionary.com)
Date: Thu Jun 26 2003 - 13:41:28 EDT


On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 15:51, webguroo@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
> On 26 Jun 2003 at 11:12, J. David Boyd wrote:
>
> >It has KDE, OpenOffice, tons of stuff...
>
> They did a show on that too a while back. The idea with this is it all fits on
> a business card CD that fits in your pocket. Never be without Linux again.

A few months ago I bought a stack of little 3" (180M) round CDRWs at
Compusa or somesuch. James tells me that they also have
business-card-shaped CDRWs you can buy in stores now.

So you can actually burn your own Linuxcare BBC onto a business-card
sized/shaped CDRW and stick it in your pocket.

It would be an interesting project to see Knoppix make their own BBC
with some of the "bells" stripped out, just as a very full-featured,
modern "recovery" type system.

I frequently use the LXBBC to do backups/restores on machines with rsync
because it's the only BBC project that supports the XFS filesystem,
which I use exclusively. I can boot using the LXBBC and do a complete
restore onto the machine, from the root filesystem, without having to go
through the hassle of actually "doing" an installation, and have XFS
native, which in a lot of cases, can be a pain in the butt since none of
the distros I'm aware of support XFS out-of-the-box.

And in fact, just to do a little tangential eye-poking, according to
recent comments on the XFS list, it looks like not only has RedHat
explicitly _not_ supported XFS in any way (claims are that it's not
"production-ready", which is bogus) but apparently in the latest RedHat
Enterprise Server kernel under development, they've even gone so far as
to rip out the bits from the Linus kernel that have gotten put in there
during the 2.4 development series to make integrating XFS into the 2.4
kernel much easier. So it seems like RedHat is going out of their way
to dis on XFS, for silly political "pro-ext3" reasons of their own I
suppose. One wonders what they'll do when 2.6 goes stable, which has
officially included XFS for some time in the 2.5 series...

And I can say for a fact, from recent experimentation, that on identical
hardware, XFS is MUCH faster and more scalable than ext3. And in my
experience, I feel it's more reliable as well.

But that's why choice in the marketplace is a good thing. :)

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