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Re: Ubuntu File Manager like XP's Windows Explorer?

Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 4:36 pm
by daedalus__
lol jab if you make it angry its gonna yell at you

Re: Ubuntu File Manager like XP's Windows Explorer?

Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 5:43 pm
by JAB Creations
I think a major point is being missed here: I have 4GB of RAM. Unless I am going to emulate 4 OS's with say 512MB each (I very very rarely will run two emulated OS's simultaneously and never have bothered to run three) suck up 2GB, and am already using 2GB there is just not way I'm going to ever crash Linux. If I got to the point where I needed to use that much more physical RAM, I'll buy it.

There were plenty of good points; useless bloated software shouldn't be loaded in to physical memory. I totally agree and that is why I only test IE because of the market share. :twisted:

Also each person manages and uses their computer differently. With XP I run what I need minimally and generally close programs I'm not using...not that they use any where near an amount of memory that could suck up what I have. Even if I'm running Firefox, IE, Opera, and Safari with an emulator I still have at least over a gigabyte of physical RAM available.

Also I have 4GB and about 3.2GB available out of the total (X86 running 32 bit XP) so I'll actually gain roughly 800MB of physical memory just by switching to a 64 bit version of Linux.

So swap looks good for running Linux in an emulator with limited available RAM on a 32 bit edition of XP...kind of at best depending if I'll run one copy, two, or twelve; generally as in 99.9% of the time I only run one emulator and I don't actually use them all too often.

...and for $80-90 I can pick up another 4GB of DDR3-1333.

Again back to habits...I don't work at my computer and press CTRL+S once every few hours, more like every fourth heat beat. :evil: Nah, just kidding, though I do save my work very often so even if I did crash and had to reboot it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.

I just don't see any benefits of having a swap partition for my given. Now if Linux wanted to start emulating Vista and started treating physical memory like a frigin RAM drive...well then I'd probably start looking for a different distro faster then you can say pickles!

KHTML isn't very well documented...I can't find any CSS3 properties except for border-radius...eh. I'd like to know what version of KHTML it became available in. Oh well...the DOM detects support, it'll just load the CSS file and if it doesn't it won't load it so no biggie.

Re: Ubuntu File Manager like XP's Windows Explorer?

Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 9:27 pm
by Benjamin
JAB Creations wrote:I think a major point is being missed here:
You are correct. If you do not have a swap partition, you will not have a stable Linux installation. The amount of RAM you have does not matter. If Linux decides that something has been sitting in RAM unused for a period of time, it will attempt to move it to the swap file/partition. If one doesn't exist that is fine. The problem you are not understanding is that the kernel expects to be able to do this. You may have 300GB of RAM, but you will still need swap. If you attempt to copy one 500GB drive to another and you only have 300GB of RAM with no swap, you may crash the system. You continue to argue with members who have actually used Linux far longer than you. If you prefer to learn the hard way, so be it.