____/ Darth Chaos on Tuesday 14 August 2007 08:14 : \____
> On Aug 13, 4:58 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Freespire On; Freespire Off
>>
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>> | I've been waiting for months for the release of Freespire 2.0. Over the
>> | past two years I've downloaded and tried many distros but had been saving
>> | the "best for last."
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2007-08-13-001-26-RV-DB
>
> I actually downloaded and tested Freespire 2.0 for sh*ts and giggles.
> On the bright side, my wifi worked right out of the box and I was
> online in a matter of seconds. Then I use apt-get to install gdm,
> GNOME, and XFCE, and changed my default desktop manager to GNOME. It
> was okay, but the next day I had Ubuntu 7.04 back on there. The one
> advantage that Freespire has over Ubuntu is my install size on my
> laptop on Freespire with GNOME and Amarok and XFCE installed is about
> 3 GB, while the default installation of Ubuntu takes up quite a bit
> more. (Could that be because Ubuntu uses the ext3 file system, as
> opposed to Freespire which I think still uses ReiserFS3?)
It shouldn't affect used capacity much. The allocation tables (or equivalent)
are relatively small. Continuous storage should almost be identical.
Did you run scandisk.exe and defrag.exe?
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