--- Jon Pruente [email protected] wrote:
So, are they still using a compressed filesystem? That's one of my pet peeves about LiveCDs on older machines.
KNOPPIX 4.0 DVD uses a compressed filesystem on the DVD. According to the press materials, the 3GB ISO I downloaded is a compressed filesystem holding 9GB of applications and data.
Now, I must note that neither the German version nor the English version has successfully gotten past the initial boot screen on my HP Pavillion (2.93GHz Celeron, 512MB RAM) so I haven't had the opportunity to see the new KNOPPIX 4.0 for myself.
Having to read, decompress, then run an app takes way too long on a slower system with little RAM. Swapping to disk (if setup) makes it a tad easier to run stuff, but is slow none-the-less.
Yes, I do have a spare 90Mhz Pentium Laptop but with only 16MB RAM it just doesn't have the power to run most LiveCDs (or for that matter the *installer* on the flashier Linux install CDs), so its not really a good demo machine.
On 8/21/05, Leo Mauler [email protected] wrote:
making KNOPPIX went hog-wild with all the space they have on a DVD, resulting in menus so big it takes
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