Re: OT-ish: fedora->crash->single user fsck; FreeBSD->crash->smooth recovery

2008-07-15 Thread Steve Franks
>> Ok, I'll quit ranting and actually ask a question: The real big thing >> that suprised me (about Fedora), is that every damn time it crashes, I >> have to sit through 20 minutes of fsck when it boots, then it cries, >> gags, and throws me into a root console to run fsck again, manually, >> for 2

Re: OT-ish: fedora->crash->single user fsck; FreeBSD->crash->smooth recovery

2008-07-15 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:36:17 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is ext2/3 really that bad? > > > i don't know ext3, it in theory does journalling, are you using ext3 or > ext2? > > hint: ext3 is actually ext2 with extra file created, there is no need to > convert, jus

Re: OT-ish: fedora->crash->single user fsck; FreeBSD->crash->smooth recovery

2008-07-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Just unacceptable for a laptop. No flash in firefox, I hate flash, but it's crippling not to have. i don't have. nothing lost. Lots of unsupported hardware, etc. [I simply buy COMPATIBLE hardware like IBM/Lenovo. observe, it just doesn't crash (unless I plug in a weird flash drive, came

OT-ish: fedora->crash->single user fsck; FreeBSD->crash->smooth recovery

2008-07-14 Thread Steve Franks
So, after much tough consideration, I've put Fedora on my laptop. FreeBSD just won't do a large-ish number of desktop things (I have 5 FreeBSD systems from 1-10 years old and not a single one will suspend correctly, even after following the instructions in the handbook. Just unacceptable for a lap