A few questions...

[Kyle Smith]

Pastor JW wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 April 2009 6:00:55 pm Roy Smith wrote:
>   
>> Hi Everyone!  Being fairly new to Ubunto and Linux in general, I've got
>> a few questions.  I've been using computers for a long time, started out
>> with a C-64, then progressed to an Amiga, and for the past 11 years I've
>> been using various versions of Windows.  Over the years I've gotten
>> accustomed to having to do various maintenance tasks with the computer,
>> such as checking the file system for errors, defragmenting the drives
>> and so on.  I've found a few programs to do some of the things I'm
>> accustomed to doing except I can't find where you would defragment the
>> drives.  Is it necessary?
>>     
>
> No.  and I came up the same way as far as computers go except I never owned a 
> windows machine.  I worked on them alot, still do, but never had the desire 
> to own one of those nasty machines.  My Amiga 4000 ran a three line BBS for 
> eight years with 21 minutes of downtime.  Ubuntu and actually more Kubuntu 
> have very much the feel of the Amiga but I still miss the ease and 
> multitasking abilities of the Amiga.  Nothing so far beats it although 
> Kubuntu comes as close as anything I have found to date.  I quite believe you 
> will really enjoy this distro and I've been hearing Jackalope has 
> straightened out most of the KDE4 problems if you want an Amigalike desktop 
> which should be ready by the end of the month.
>
>   
I haven't defragmented a computer since Windows 98SE.  Most modern 
filesystems (NTFS, Ext2/3, HFS+) are *much* more intelligent in how they 
store their data than the old FAT32 filesystem, and specifically Windows 
9x was.

HTH,
Kyle
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