On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Michael Rigby-Jones wrote:
> >
> Nice thing about DOS is that you can happily power up and down with vritualy
> no chance of causing any HD corruption.  Linux is a bit of a fscking
> nuisance in that respect :o)  Dos will also boot in a couple of seconds
> which is handy if you just want to turn on and get some music out of the
> thing.

ext3 filesystem is much more tolerant of that. Having 100MB ethernet is
nice too, so you don't have to yank the thing out of the car each time you
want to change something.

I certainly see the point of a DOS player, but the really cool ones use
Linux :)

Mine takes 40 seconds to boot, waits 10 minutes when the car is shut
offbefore powering down gracefully(the 10 minutes is to let you buy a pack
of smokes or get gas without rebooting).

Cheers,

Bob

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