Subject: Re: Packaging Linux From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 07:18:34 GMT
In article <1992Nov20.184332.4802@news.columbia.edu> jml12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jonathan M Lennox) writes:
>In article <1992Nov20.160444.16116@scifi.uucp> njs@scifi.uucp (Nicholas J. Simicich) writes:
>>I personally think that another essential for mass-usage is going to
>>be a filesystem that doesn't require sync() or fsck. This isn't an
>>impossible task, and yes, there is a performance hit, but I don't
>>think you are going to sell a system to the masses that they can't
>>turn off whenever they want to.
>
> Macintoshes require you to do a "shutdown" before power-off (or, on
>Mac II's, to CAUSE the power-off), so I hardly think you can argue
>that common people can't understand the concept.
>
> Perhaps an X command which stops x, syncs, halts, and prints "it is
>now safe to turn off your computer" would be a good idea, though.
Also, DOS Windows 3.x requires a shutdown if it is using the Smartcache
driver.
--Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP