[ale] Wow, Ubuntu...

[Jim Kinney]

2008/9/30 Stephen Benjamin <skbenja at gmail.com>

> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com>wrote:
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>> Curious why you didn't go to latest Fedora if you were already using
>> Fedora?  Given the short lifetime for Fedora releases there is hardly
>> likely to be anything "more modern" than the latest Fedora release.
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>> By the way Redhat/Fedora/CentOS let you do the RAID/LVM setup during
>> install or not as you choose.   Why would Ubuntu require a separate CD
>> for that?
>>
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> It's an incredibly flawed design that it requires a second CD to do
> anything outside the recommended partitioning scheme.
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> I wanted to have an encrypted partition for my laptop (business docs).  AND
> the default is encrypting the whole system.  I tried it, just to see its
> performance.  On a Core 2 duo 1.8GHz / 2GB of RAM, vmware crawwwwwls.  As
> does everything else.  Nice, but no thanks.  Just swap and /home for me....
>

I'll have to try my vmware workstation on my laptop. Turion X2 1.6GHz w/1GB
RAM Fedora 9 with / swap encrypted. I can't see a performance hit on my
drive encryption. It may just be that the drive itself is so slow...

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