Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Norton Utilities for Linux ? | From | Oystein Viggen <> | Date | 28 Jun 1999 21:44:12 +0200 |
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"Marco Ermini" wrote:
> > > On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Marco Ermini wrote: > > > > > IMHO Linux simply don't not need this > > > kind of utility, because: > > > > > > 1) The system simply works as is. I.e, do > > > you need a defrag for ext2? > > > > One exists and I have used it. > > But certainly EXT2 *don't need* it.
I have an ext2 partition with over 5% fragmentation (as reported by fsck). I don't know if that makes me _need_ a defrag tool, thogh...
> > > I think a 'Peter Norton Utility' for Linux is a great idea and since > > Linux has now "arrived", somebody might ask Symantec about it. > > Of course you could ask it to Symantec, > but I think it could be not worth to buy > something that GNU software already > provides. That's the difference, Windows > is not so configurable as GNU and don't > have all the tools that GNU provides > (and certainly Windows needs them, > much more than Linux). >
I believe "people"(TM) would buy a NU for Linux, because "people" have already bought NU for NT which, in my experience, is just a collection of frontends, speed reducers and memory hogs. (NDD is essentially a frontend for chkdsk, speedisk always seemed to make my disk even more fragmented, no matter how many times I ran it, and the only thing System Doctor ever did for me was to prove that NT isn't as stable as one would wish it was :)
Anyway, I don't believe this discussion is very "Linux-kernel" related.
Oystein -- "The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible." - Arthur C. Clarke
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