[KLUG Members] Speed comparison of all major Linux filesystems.

[Adam Williams]

> > Since we're talking, what do you think would be a fair price for such a
> > service?  I can see it being a premium charged on top of the supporting
> > membership fee of $25/year.  How much extra would you pay for access to
> > the ISO images all the time?
> I think $25 a year would be fair. I have a subscription to 
> apps.kde.com, and that's $35 a year, it gives me precompiled binaries 
> for my chosen distro, very cool. It would be a good fundraiser for 
> KLUG, and would make BSWare available worldwide (world domination?)

If it is going to raise money for KLUG then I'll subscribe.

> > That's a very good use for the ISO's.  How often do you think you would
> > download them?  Weekly?  Every couple weeks?  Monthly?  Bi-monthly? ...
> It would probably be monthly-ish (which is about whenever I feel like 
> it, or the need arizes)

Probably about monthly.  While I'm at a meeting.

> > Gnome can take a little getting used to, but is very nice after you get
> > the hang of it.
> Yeah, i played with GNOME 1.4 a little while ago, and it was fun, but 

1.4 was a long time ago. :)

> still prefer my KDE 3. At least RedHat is including KDE now. I haven't 
> gotten much of a chance to play with GNOME 2, or Ximian GNOME (what's 
> the real difference?)

Ximian vs. GNOME - Ximian adds

1. spit-n-polish 
2. better SMB-VFS integration (windows network browsing/utilization),
more current evo releases
3. red-carpet updater (now rock stable), 
4. GNOME-VFS integration into OpenOffice so you can load/save docs from
windows shares without having to mount anything.
5. Integreation with CUPS in all Ximian compiled applications, no more
entering "lpr -Pactps" to print a webpage.
6. Equivalents to all Microsoft standard fonts, so importers come out
with what you expect way more often.
7. Font management via Nautilus

You can also automatically install, via Ximian, macromedia flash
plugins, acrobat reader, etc... and other "softly" proprietary
resources.