[Ubuntu-be] Remember - IRC meeting tomorrow Thursday 28/10/2010 at 21.00 hr.

[Steven Vancoillie]

Hi Jan,

On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 11:14 +0200, Jan Bongaerts wrote:

> Unfortunately I won't be there again.
> 
> I'm still compiling some introsession for a school, and could use some
> ideas on what to show
> 1) using the live CD
> 2) using a normally installed system.
> 
> I would like to know the following background info, to answer some
> probable questions..
> 
> a) Why does Linux need so little memory to run (min 384MB if I'm not
> mistaken), compared to Windows (min 1GB I think)?

This depends on the amount of stuff you're running.  The nice thing
about Linux is that you're in control of how much fancy things you want
to run, and thus also roughly the amount of memory you want to commit to
that.  That said, Windows 7 is indeed rather hungry on memory,
considering under Ubuntu I need much less memory to have the same (in my
opinion) kind of visual experience.

> 
> b) Why isn't it necessary to 'defragment' a Linux hard disk, like one
> needs to do in Windows?

Well, you should also defragment a Linux 'file system' (not 'hard
disk').  Probably EXT3 tries to avoid fragmentation, and maybe does a
better job at it than NTFS does?  I don't know if Windows (NTFS) users
need to defragment a lot?

> 
> c)Confirm that software packages in Linux are much lighter because of
> the multi-package structure. If not, please give reason.
> 
> d)Confirm that the most important safety feature in Linux is due to
> the fact that you always need a password to become root, and that the
> second most important reason is that there is little standardisation,
> so difficult to write malware that works on all flavours of the target
> software.

I would definitely not say there is little standardisation? Linux is
Linux, it's the same everywhere, only the distro varies.  I'm no
security expert, but as far as I know no modern OS is in principle less
or more safe than another.  A truly unbiased security expert with
knowledge of different operating systems could probably enlighten us
more :)

> 
> e) Confirm that apps usually run faster in Linux than in Windows,
> because of the different memory management.

Where did you get the idea that apps (in general) run faster in Linux???
The same program compiled on Linux or Windows should run equally fast on
the same hardware.

> 
> Those are just some of the things I can think of now.
> I'd love to hear feedback from the experts here.
> 
> Regards,
> Jan.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:27 PM, jean7491-Events-Team
> <jean7491 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>          Hi to all,
>         
>         Remember - next IRC meeting  tomorrow Thursday 28/10/2010 at
>         21.00 hr.
>         on #ubuntu-be -- IRC (http://webchat.freenode.net/).
>         
>         See agenda in wiki
>         https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/IrcMeetings
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