In the past I've install OS on CompactFlash and USB stick.CF was pretty quick almost as good as HD while USB was much slower.However my new box can boot a 6 in 1 card reader which uses MMC/SD/SDHC/MS/MS Pro/xD can anyone with experience of these formats advise what is the fastest to use for an OS?
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I thought this might interest someone out there:[URL].. I used SD cards with MBR formatted as ext2 for backup. After I read these articles, I reformatted my cards with GUID Partition Table and ext4 format. Now I make my backup in half the time!
View 2 Replies View RelatedAbout finding the fastest booting operating system is out there.
I'm especially interested in Ubuntu Netbook Remix and Intel Moblin, and when my internet comes back tomorrow, xPud. I'm kinda freaked at Moblin though because there isn't an option to split the hard drive to account for its space, and even if there were, I'm freaked that a GRUB won't show up Ubuntu or even Windows 7
My requirements:
1. Boots up in 5-15 seconds on 1.3GHz processor/4GB RAM or within 10 seconds on a netbook which has 1.6GHz Atom and 1GB RAM
2. Has to have a good-looking window manager (so a customised Linux distro with something like Fluxbox/Blackbox is out). Something like what's in netbook designed OS's are good
3. Has to actually be able to run good on laptops that aren't netbooks, for I'm hoping to run the OS on proper laptops too
4. Can be propiertary, though open-source and free is good too and preferable
5. Has to have a GRUB so I can switch between Ubuntu/Windows 7/whatever fast-booting OS it might be or at least an easy way to switch between the 3. More preferable is that it comes as an .exe that can be installed inside Windows, like xPud
I have just got an SSD (Kingston SSDNow 100v 64Gib)It supports TRIM, and is definitely one of the better ones available.I am asserting here that the "limited number of writes" problem is a myth, so I'm not looking for an answer to that.My question is, what filesystem will help me get the best performance out of my SSD? Bear in mind SSDs excel at random access time, but sequential file performance is meh
View 2 Replies View Relatedusing Ubuntu desktop ltd Ver.? mp3player type - philips gogear 1gb so the problem is that my player just one day got frozen when I turned it on..(just shows philips logo and hangs on) the last time this happened I formatted it in winxp with a lot of effort.. in linux when I try to plug it in it just shows "cant mount device dev/sdb/" I already tried formating it with gparted but it isnt possible because I'am not able to choose "format" from menu.... is there are any other way that I can format it using gparted or another app.
View 3 Replies View RelatedThe stock one seems ok but is it the best?
View 5 Replies View RelatedIs there a faster way to search for a file containing a given string than using grep -re "string" /
This takes a long time to search through the entire system, so I was wondering if there is a faster way. I don't know the name of the file, just that it will contain a given string.
Which is the lightest/fastest environment for an old computer?
AfterStep, Blackbox, Fluxbox, GNOME, IceWM, KDE, LXDE, Openbox, WMaker, Xfce
I've already googled and I found how to find the fastest repo counterpart. The problem is all tips I found, talk about main repo. However I am interested in finding all counterparts (for each entry)[URL]he first line originally contained the main Debian repo, but since netselect-apt found the fastest counterpart, I changed this line to mirror.But -- what about the rest? How to find the fastest counterpart repo (mirror) for each line?
View 4 Replies View RelatedThe graphical package management tools like Synaptic have a nice feature where you can scan for and connect to the fastest server. I'm writing a setup script for minimal installs and would like to offer the option to scan for a fast server, does anybody know how to achieve this through the command line?
View 7 Replies View Relatedhow to find out second fastest repository server.
I know ubuntu will choose the best server for you by ping value, but it's not give you the ping value list.
For some reason, I don't want to use the server ubuntu choose.
Are there any method/software can show the speed list of ubuntu repository servers?
UI figured this would be the place to ask this question. I would like to download all the repositories to my PC for those crazy times when I don't have internet and need to install a program. I guess I would be making my PC a LAN Repository. What is the easiest/fastest way to get all the packages?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI just receive a very thin laptop but pretty old, it has 2 hard drives or kind of hard drives... of 16 GB each, I don't know about the RAM, probably 512 Mb, maybe 1 Gb (I don't remember how to see that on windows) and an intel core duo.It's currently running a legal windows xp (I specify legal cause it's pretty rare), it's not "slow" but it could be a lot faster, it still takes a few seconds to load IE and stuffs.
I'm a mac user, I'm only using debian server version for web servers and databases so I don't know how it works with a user interface.I've heard about Archlinux, it says it's pretty fast but do you know which one is the fastest one ?
I'll be using the laptop for taking notes only, probably on google docs but it'd be cool if I could store some images and stuff without waiting 10 secs to open a new window.By the way, if you could quickly explain me how do I install the GUI and which one is fastest cause when I've installed Ubuntu, Gnome was already installed by default.Finally, there is no way to insert DVD / CDs, it's like the Mac Book Air, so I haven't installed any linux distro from a USB stick either.
Moderator: If this post doesnt belong here, please move it to where it belongs. I like the KDE environment but there are so many menu items that I am not interested in or do not use. For example, I use LibreOffice, not Koffice; I use only Firefox & Chrome; I dont use a PIM.There seems to be a lot of duplication to satisfy different preferences.Further, there are a bunch of environments (flukebox etc) that I am not interested in. I thought that if I removed all the stuff that is of no interest to me, that I could have a personalized, uncluttered Slackware 13.37 system that would occupy less disk space and take less time to back up.
I know that you can remove menu items without removing the underlying programs but, if I can get rid of the programs without trashing my system, that is what I would like to do. (I am assuming that I can reinstall some or all later.)
If I were a Slackware guru, I would probably install some sort of Slackware Minimal but then I would probably drive you all crazy with endless posts to this forum.So, the question is: If I use pkgtool to remove the stuff that I do not want, will I end up in Dependency issue Hell
Does anyone know of a tool to find the fastest mirrors for the repos? I know some distros have something called "fastest mirrors" or something equivalent. The fastest I can get updates is around 238 kB/s and normally, on other distros I get 10 times that speed.btw, like all the other distros, speedtest.net gives me an avg download speed of 43Mbs
View 9 Replies View RelatedIn my system around 73gb(pc-desktop) i have,1 primary partition(windows)-25gb, 1-extended partition(remaining gb) 3 logical partitions were there in (under) extended partition in one of the logical partition is d:drive. in my hard disk d: drive is -/dev/sda5
previosly i was fat -file system , (d:drive-/dev/sda5), i remember i changed the d: drive(d:drive-/dev/sda5) file system to ext4file system ,with following command using terminal
After doing(changing the file system)this one ,i couldnt see the d:drive data
By doing that
1q) Did i reformatted the partition? i think the new filesystem(ext4) has no knowledge of the data that was on it when it had a FAT filesystem.
2q) How to do undo operation,i tried to change the filesystem type to fat/ntfs in terminal using command --sudo mkfs -t FAT /dev/sda5.
Result:its showing text message-'mkfs.FAT: No such file or directory'(not in single quote)
I had very imp data in d:drive
I just loaded octave. I ran through a few examples of how to implement a script file. Everything works until I get to "plot". When I run the "plot" command I get the following.
octave:2> test1.m
error: can't perform indexing operations for <unknown type> type
sh: gnuplot: not found
Just to double check my work, I ran the following code:
y=[1 2 3];
plot(y);
I have an ext2 formatted disk (linux) and I need to reformat it to NTFS (windows). Problem is, I have to retain the 750 GB of data that's on the disk. What's the quickest (least number of steps) way to accomplish this? I do have a spare 1TB disk now to help with the transfer.
Background.I've been using XBMC Live for a couple of years, but with all the problems I've been having lately, I'm moving over to the Windows version. Unfortunately all of my media is stored on an ext2 formatted disk (not the same disk as the OS disk).I was thinking of loading up an Ubuntu live disk, and installing ntfs-config. Mount my secondary disk (already formatted NTFS), transfer the files, reformat the original drive, load windows and transfer the files back.
I am copying the file form one directory to another directory using shellscript.
Here i want to get the Mimetype/Content-type of the file.
How to i can get the MimeType.
I have a server hacked when i try to log in i type root but won't let me type a passwdthere are no services up, can't see page mail nothing
View 11 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to compile a program and it gives me the following:
I checked cmath-util.h:46 and cmath-util.h:48:
I'm not a C person, and the author is unavailable so far.
i have an old laptop (compaq armada m700... a piii with 576mb ram!!!) which i seldomly use. i have always "wished" i could use this old (and slow and crippled) laptop to do something basic, very basic: to connect to the internet, browse my email, maybe download and read a pdf, watch some stupid videos videos (-not in hd, of course i know!)... and that's about it (no gaming, no office, no photoshoping, no anything else!). but i wanted to do that in style: fast and without hazzle -as 'in having to navigate thru somehow obscure prompt commands or similar!'.
i've tried installing a bare tinyxp... but yet it takes forever to start up, load... and be ready to navigate. i've also looked at the linux world -albeit i am clueless on this os- and i tried installing different flavours of ubuntu and others. unfortunately results weren't much better than with tinyxp -in regards of starting up and responding to user interaction in a reasonably and timely manner. lately i've hear about the (in)famous chrome or chromium or whatever... but it seems it's not going to be ready for a while just yet and it won't necessarely work on such old laptops like mine
I am trying to generic way to convert the string datatype to other primitive data type. To achieve, i used Template . But i getting error and couldn't resolve the issue and error reported is also clueless.
Code
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#include <vector>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
[Code].....
Here as I sit, happily with my Ubuntu and GNOME. I really like the GNOME in many ways. Alas, I admit that the desktop UI initializes in a meager .5 second really gets me. So why am I looking at KDE if I'm happy with this GNOME? Read on...Cause I'm not. I confess the GNOME isn't as pretty as KDE. Then I read a Slackware users' love of KDE (looking at you, ~sHyLoCk~), then I go on and read Linuz Torvalds criticism of GNOME. I see KDEs apps constantly being referred to as elite. And eyecandy? Well, GNOME has zip (not .zip ).Then I want to change something somewhere in the UI in gnome and I have to open a dreaded Registry Editor. I have had enough torture with that, with you-know-who, Mr. Gates! (Ok, ok, its Gconf. Whatever. Still has hives and strange string data, hiding away things...making things harder and more complicated).
So now I'm all for KDE right? Maybe. Every distro I have tried with KDE, Slackware (God of the Linux), Gentoo (Sabayon) [supposedly optimized for hardware for speed....hrmph...), Kubuntu (1:27 sec boot time), Fedora with KDE (Pathetic), BackTrack 4 (System_not_responsive) and a few others I probably have forgotten. Guess what?ower than molasses in January. Boot times 1 minute +... 10 seconds plus for an app to load up...Even the mouse gets choppy. GNOME distros? Fast. (well, a few of them are, anyway...)I've read distrowatch like an Almanac, scoured polishlinux.org...Haven't seen nothing.So I guess I'm going to ask you KDE fans, is there some obscure optimization thats needed?
i'm in 64 bit kubuntu, with the the nswrapper in 10.10http://www.metacafe.comin firefox i get the sound but not the video in metacafe, when the video is unblocked by flash block. Others have the same problem?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI get this link [url] for change my version of flash, because I can't playing flash when I have turned on effects. So I downloaded file for my Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit and I extracted it. But there is problem, because I don't know on which location I need to copy .so file?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to load the flash stuff in webpages, but it says i need the flash plugin.
I download the YUM rpm installer, and use yum localinstall to do it.
Terminal say: /home/wade/Download/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm: does not update installed package.
I have already tried installing it, and it says it worked fine, but I'm still unable to view flash.
Did anybody tried installing the latest adobe flash named Square for amd64 systems? I was interested in knowing whether there is any improvement in the performance. I also want to know how to replace my existing 32 bit wrapper based flash on 64 bit browser and install this 64 bit flash.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI recently installed Ubuntu 10.10 AMD64 beta. After installing the flash player, everything worked fine. I installed a few updates, as well as Ubuntu Stuido from the synaptic package manager, and when I rebooted, I can't hear any sound from flash content displayed in Fire Fox. All other sounds work fine, and I made another user account as a test, and that account has full audio functionality, including flash...
View 5 Replies View RelatedFlash is no longer working in Mozilla Firefox after the most recent flash plugin update. I couldn't find any information on it.
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