From: Richard Villa <rvilla1@swbell.net>
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: RH 6.2 Versus RH 7.2
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 04:40:20 -0600 (CST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201300438060.1770-100000@dhcppc2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <008101c1a943$09f2e1e0$0100a8c0@tward>
When you do a clean install of RH7.2, does the system use the ext 3 FS
by default?
If not, is there a way to do a convertion without having to do a
complete reinstall?
Richard
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Thomas Ward wrote:
> Well, I've noticed that slow down in spead myself. One way to help spead
> things up is to use the ext3 fs which works much better than ext2.
> One major difference between 6.2 and 7.2 is that 7.2 comes with the kudzu
> pnp hardware maniger. Kudzu tracks new and removed hardware, and attempts to
> configure it for you.
> A second change is the X-Windows server ois much newer, but on my 1.2 GHZ
> box the little drop in spead is worth getting all the new tools. At least
> for me.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Amanda Lee <amanda@shellworld.net>
> To: Speakup@Braille.Uwo.Ca <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 9:18 PM
> Subject: RH 6.2 Versus RH 7.2
>
>
> >
> > Hmmm I know that it is likely that RH 6.2 with Speakup enabled does not
> have
> > the most current version of Speakup patched into the Kernel but here's an
> > interesting comment from a friend whose judgement I respect a good deal.
> >
> > So to the other experts herein, please share your thoughts.
> >
> > He prefers RH 6.2 for the following reason:
> > RH 7.2 seems to be significantly slower, with lots more disk thrashing,
> and
> > it's
> > not just X Windows (although it's also significantly slower).
> >
> > So my question is... What is enabled in RH 7.2 that you won't see in RH
> 6.2
> >
> > Amanda Lee
> > Alexandria, VA
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Amanda Lee
` Thomas Ward
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` Thomas Ward
` Mitchell
` William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123
` Kirk Wood
` Thomas Ward
` Victor Tsaran
` Darrell Shandrow
Dawes, Stephen
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