On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 06:22:31PM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
[...]
> So, metaphorically speaking, rather than blindly groping some
> portion of an unknown beast and attempting to describe it [...]
CONGRATS! You just managed to get hold of that philospher who
was gripping firmly the elephan
On 2021-02-19 13:55, Michael Stone wrote:
On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 01:45:23PM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant
You thought this was helpful how?
I frequently see a pattern on this list:
1. Someone posts an interesting question, but prov
On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 01:45:23PM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant
You thought this was helpful how?
On 2021-02-19 12:43, Darac Marjal wrote:
On 19/02/2021 20:37, David Christensen wrote:
On 2021-02-19 07:44, Semih Ozlem wrote:
Hello everyone,
In comparing performance what are the pros and cons to using
(i) live usb flash disk
(ii) live usb with persistence on a flash disk
(iii) full instal
On 19/02/2021 20:37, David Christensen wrote:
> On 2021-02-19 07:44, Semih Ozlem wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> In comparing performance what are the pros and cons to using
>>
>> (i) live usb flash disk
>> (ii) live usb with persistence on a flash disk
>> (iii) full installation on a flash disk
>
On 2021-02-19 07:44, Semih Ozlem wrote:
Hello everyone,
In comparing performance what are the pros and cons to using
(i) live usb flash disk
(ii) live usb with persistence on a flash disk
(iii) full installation on a flash disk
(iv) full installation on an external hard disk (ssd or other)
(v)
>> It works but it is only suitable for occasional or lightweight use. I
>> wrote a how-to guide for building such a system; it is here:
>> https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/50416.html
>> It is a little dated now but still valid. It details some
>> optimisations you can do to boost life -- su
On Fri 19 Feb 2021 at 18:11:02 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
[...]
> If you want to use it on multiple different computers you may have
> issues -- e.g. the same bootable key may not boot both a BIOS PC and a
> UEFI PC. If there are OSes installed on the HDD as well, and you do an
> update, then thos
TL;DR: Full installation on internal SSD is fastest,
live (with or without persistence) is slower.
Semih Ozlem writes:
Hello everyone,
In comparing performance what are the pros and cons to using
What kind of performance do you look for?
* CPU performance will mostly be equal for any
On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 at 16:46, Semih Ozlem wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> In comparing performance what are the pros and cons to using
>
> (i) live usb flash disk
Works, boots on anything (BIOS and UEFI), but you can't update and you
can't readily save your data. Boot speed slow, because the OS is
Darac Marjal (12021-02-19):
> Most USB flash disks
> (even USB3 drives) are relatively slow at transferring data (they
> optimize for cost). Some devices DO have good controllers though, so YMMV.
There is a more subtle problem here. Most USB flas
On 19/02/2021 15:44, Semih Ozlem wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> In comparing performance what are the pros and cons to using
>
> (i) live usb flash disk
Usually, this is implemented with a compressed, read-only file system
which is read into RAM. "Live" Operating Systems developed from the era
of CD
Hello everyone,
In comparing performance what are the pros and cons to using
(i) live usb flash disk
(ii) live usb with persistence on a flash disk
(iii) full installation on a flash disk
(iv) full installation on an external hard disk (ssd or other)
(v) full installation on an internal hard disk
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