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From:	prw AT remus DOT rutgers DOT edu (TORMENTVM)
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Subject:	Re: Why are they so fat?
Date:	13 Jun 1996 10:26:42 GMT
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In article <4piave$11hn AT rs18 DOT hrz DOT th-darmstadt DOT de>, 
lehmann AT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de says...
>Well, install Linux, first of all it has shared libraries, 2nd is has
>a sane filesystem, which means that you are wasting less space on
>half-used clusters. And it runs DOOM, not much more to ask for is 
>there.

	Linux may have a 'sane' file system, but the people who put
together the distributions must be insane, for every distribution I've
ever seen had the filesystems running async rather than sync by default.
Now that's certainly insane, unless you're prepared to have radical
file system damage after an improper shutdown or kernel crash.

	Linux may be cool, but if you want to play or write games,
there are a lot more products and users around in the DOS/Windows 
community.  Right now the only game going on in the Linux community is
the FSF's remarkably stupid attempt to change the name 'Linux' to
'Lignux'.

-- 
Philip R. Wilson - <prw AT remus DOT rutgers DOT edu>
WWW: http://remus.rutgers.edu/~prw

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