Minutes 2010-02-23
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- Open Forum Discussion
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- Partitioning hard disks
- Why is it called "mounting" a device
- Rick began his explanation by suggesting that the phrase "mounting a device" was perhaps an arbitrary artefact passed down from "the old ones" who first operated large computers. This led to a small digression about an old Star Trek (Original) episode where a character named Rock or Brock (an android) speaks of "the old ones" who were the original programmers of what would become very advanced and capable technology. You can watch this episode (called "What Little Girls are made of" online at http://www.cbs.com/classics/star_trek/video/ . The critical discussion begins at ~40 minutes into the episode.
- —RalphHansen 16:11, 24 February 2010 (EST)
- (other things I learned
- —RalphHansen 16:11, 24 February 2010 (EST)) cfdisk is the preferred tool (in most instances) and works well (along with a Slackware (bootable) LiveCD) as a straightforward method of setting up partitions when planning to experiment with several separate Linux distributions on a single hard drive. Virtualization was mentioned as an alternative possibility.
- Nobody seemed to like working with uuids.
- Our April Saturday mtg may be a good time to have an organized discussion/tutorial/hands-on experiment with several sorts of partitioning, (and working with GRUB)
- During the discussion hard drive partitions, the subject of file systems came up. Phoronix (a linux review site) has done benchmarks on upcoming file systems. We also talked about how ext3 is still the safest choice, since it is compatible with older distributions/kernels.
- Several folks bemoaned that the tech we tend to discuss lately is less substantive than in the early days of open source. We have talked about new social media clients, tweeting, filling the desktop with gadgets (task lists, quick note pads, calendars, reminders, clocks, calculators, etc), adjustments/extensions to the browser. Tech (OSS) on the desktop has indeed been dumbed down (with an over-emphasis on the glossy, aesthetics of the user interface)
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