On Mar 6, 2006, at 9:35 PM, Robert Citek wrote: > > On Mar 6, 2006, at 6:39 PM, JT Moree wrote: >>> And since we will eventually give those machines to the students, it >>> would be nice to show them how Debian was installed on the machines. >>> Going in by hand to create a swap file is just a bit more technical >>> than if the installer had some magic way of specifying it. Remember >>> the target audience is 4th-8th graders. >> All the more reason to use a swap partition instead of a file. all >> linux's pretty much all unixes use swap partitions dont they. It's >> just >> one of those differences between *nix and windows. People will >> have to >> learn. It's not complicated.
That's not entirely accurate. Darwin (OS X) uses the dynamic pager (man dynamic_pager) over an existing filesystem only. But Mach-based kernels use RAM as a hard drive cache and approach the caching issue slightly differently. > > You do have a good point. Maybe I'm just underestimating their > capabilities. I'll play it by ear and see how it goes. ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ AgentM [EMAIL PROTECTED] ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
