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- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Packaging Linux
- Message-ID: <9211230218.41@rmkhome.UUCP>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 07:18:34 GMT
- References: <17612@mindlink.bc.ca> <1992Nov20.160444.16116@scifi.uucp> <1992Nov20.184332.4802@news.columbia.edu>
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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- In article <1992Nov20.184332.4802@news.columbia.edu> jml12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jonathan M Lennox) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov20.160444.16116@scifi.uucp> njs@scifi.uucp (Nicholas J. Simicich) writes:
- >>I personally think that another essential for mass-usage is going to
- >>be a filesystem that doesn't require sync() or fsck. This isn't an
- >>impossible task, and yes, there is a performance hit, but I don't
- >>think you are going to sell a system to the masses that they can't
- >>turn off whenever they want to.
- >
- > Macintoshes require you to do a "shutdown" before power-off (or, on
- >Mac II's, to CAUSE the power-off), so I hardly think you can argue
- >that common people can't understand the concept.
- >
- > Perhaps an X command which stops x, syncs, halts, and prints "it is
- >now safe to turn off your computer" would be a good idea, though.
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- Also, DOS Windows 3.x requires a shutdown if it is using the Smartcache
- driver.
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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