Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: I might replace Firefox with ???

Isn't Linpus crippled so that users can't install anything? There are hacks
that give you a password, but ordinary users are left with the system as it
is shipped. They can't add or remove.

Roy

On 24 March 2010 22:08, Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 01:14:52AM -0000, loyal_barber wrote:
> >
> >
> > > <snip>
> > > If so, also let us know if it has a standard hard drive or the SSD
> drive
> > > that they were using for awhile, because that will make a difference
> > > too.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Scott Robbins
> > > <snip>
> >
> > Scott, just curious why you think this would make a difference?
>
> Hi Loyal. I had the AA1 with the 8GB hard drive. My response to another
> email that Sharon accidentally sent me rather than the list should show
> up soon, which explains it, but in a nutshell.
>
> The 8 GB SSD that came with the early Aspires had an incredibly low
> write speed--read speed was fine, but write was something like 1MB/s or
> so.
>
> This meant that if, for example, you installed Ubuntu, and then went to
> update, it would literally take hours. (Assuming that you were updating
> a relatively established version--might have been Jaunty at the time.)
> I remember installing shortly before a new version came out, where there
> were about 300 updates, and it literally took 6 hours.
>
> So, it would make a difference in what we might suggest to
> the OP.
> Just saying, install Ubuntu, for example, might not be good advice
> in this case.
>
> (Also, if it's the 8 GB hard drive, saying install the full version of
> any of the desktop distros, which take up 3 gigs or so, isn't
> necessarily the best advice.)
>
> However, even more than space, the write speed was the issue for many
> people.
>
> --
> Scott Robbins
> PGP keyID EB3467D6
> ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 )
> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6
>
> Anyanka: You trusting fool. How do you know the other world is
> any better than this?
> Giles: Because it has to be.
>
>

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