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

[John Bridleman]

* Jamie McCarthy (jamie@mccarthy.vg) wrote:
> > top of the supporting membership fee of $25/year.  How much
> > extra would you pay for access to the ISO images all the time?
> 
> No offense to the BSware sales and marketing departments :) but I
> think as broadband becomes more commonly available the need for
> this will fade away.

I hope your right about broadband becoming more commonly available. Judging by the interest so far, however, I'd say we have a way to go.

Even still, $25 a year is way cheaper than most of the services I've seen offered.

> BSware is still a great idea for people who are new to Linux and
> who have only dialup net access at home.  It jump-starts them into
> an install that has no known security problems, which probably
> gives them a few weeks of grace time before they have to become
> sysadmins for real and start downloading current packages to keep
> their systems secure.

At the last meeting we asked about how often people were updating. I was surprised. Most don't apply patches on a regular basis.
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John Bridleman / www.bridleman.org