XPF, I know nothing about.
Had a look at LowendMac, the 3400 looks like a decently-
spec'ed machine. With an 800x600 screen, though, you will
find the Big Two desktop systems horribly cramped. I used
fvwm2 on a Pentium laptop with that size of screen & it
worked well.
> I'm familiar with traditional unix partitioning
> strategies. Usually I like to have /, /usr, /home,
> /var, and swap. But recently a friend told me that
> he uses only /boot, /, and swap. I'd never heard of
> a boot partition before. Can anybody tell me more
> about it, and pros/cons of this type of setup? On
> a smallish drive, it would sure help waste less space.
A separate /boot partition seems to be a fairly recent
development in LinuxLand. Some of the Mac-centric
booters use it, although BootX does not.
Personally, unless the hard drive were really small, I
would partition at least /, /home, and swap. Having
home in a separate partition lets you completely re-
install the OS if needed for whatever reason without
worrying about your data (it also makes backups easier).
If you define "smallish" as less than 1GB, then you
can probably get away with / and swap. I'd use a
journalling filesystem though, in case you put the
Powerbook to sleep & forget about it -- that's easy
to do with a laptop. Trust me. :-)
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