Doug wrote:
On 8/15/2010 7:21 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2010-08-15 03:59, Duaine Hechler wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Those that know or have different needs, can and do use xfs. I use xfs and reiserfs.
I have been on reiserfs since, almost, the beginning and - love it - it takes a beating and keep on ticking.
Before I bought, out of necessity, a UPS, we keep getting brown-outs, spikes and complete power failures, and reiserfs has never failed - me.
Now, I'm not the most speed observing person however when I was very very low on space, it was the - best - option to get the best use of space (even with major tweaking on the others filesystems).
To bad - it's not - continuing being developed.
Yes, it is too bad.
It is very efficient for use, for example, on a partition holding maildir structures. Or one in which you run compilations.
This sort of thing keeps coming up: KDE3.x, reiserfs, etc. If something works, why does it have to be continuously "developed?" I used resierfs from the time it was first added to SuSE until it was no longer a choice in the install, and never had any problems with it, and the last version of KDE3.x was a nice desktop environment and the developers "developed" it into something many feel is gross, unintuitive, clumsy. And yes, now I _have_ tried SuSE's version of KDE 4.x on the 11.3 live install, and I don't like it. Some 30 years ago, or so, Xerox invented the windows-type system, and it has been working pretty well for Win 95, 98, 2000, OS2, XP, Mac, even (mostly) Win7, KDE 3.x. Well, Mac had it's peculiarities, I grant, altho I'm told by a using friend that they're mostly gone.
Don't get me wrong: I know there are people out there who seem to like KDE4.4.x. I don't disparage them. But the choice should remain with the _user_, not be forced on him. I expect to look into some of the other DE's within the next little while, and perhaps lxde, or even Gnome may be more desirable _to me_. It would help, I suppose, if SuSE and the other distros made more choices available during the install; SuSE is the only one I know of that even allows two choices. (I believe that 11.2 offered three: two KDE's and Gnome, but I bypassed that version.)
It seems that developers are the same all over: look at Vista! But somebody upstairs at M/S told them to stop fooling around and do something usable for a change. Well, "7" is not as nice as XP, as far as many are concerned, but it is somewhat an improvement, even tho certain programs became broken or uninstallable. We need somebody upstairs--that's _us_, I believe--to tell the devels to stop fooling around, and that's what a lot of folks on this list have been doing! Or trying to!
Just my $.02. --doug
AMEN - Couldn't have said it any better myself ! Duaine P.S. Whatever version reiserfs is on now has done good so far - maybe the developers just need to - maintain - the current version. And keep it as a viable option in openSUSE. -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler@att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org