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 Topic: Incorporate hard disk tools, especially those found in GPart |
DiMag
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 Forum: Suggestions Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2013 9:09 am Subject: Incorporate hard disk tools, especially those found in GPart |
| A rescue (more precisely, storage forensics+rescue) disk is exactly what I was thinking about, however I am of the opinion that SMS(64) is already a rescue tool --- except that it lacks gnu partition ... |
| Topic: Incorporate hard disk tools, especially those found in GPart |
DiMag
Replies: 3
Views: 21949
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Forum: Suggestions Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 12:42 pm Subject: Incorporate hard disk tools, especially those found in GPart |
| Since so much around SMS revolves around disks (I, for example, use SMS as a test NAS and a tool for recovering decayed RAID arrays) I think it should include the tools which are available in Gparted. ... |
| Topic: MythTV (0.27) on SMS64? |
DiMag
Replies: 1
Views: 21726
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Forum: General Discussion Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 12:37 pm Subject: MythTV (0.27) on SMS64? |
| Does MythTV (latest version=0.27) work on SMS64? I do not ask whether it works in theory - in theory all is possible. My practical experience with mythTV taught me to not believe anything concerning m ... |
| Topic: Can SMS be the better NAS? |
DiMag
Replies: 3
Views: 23142
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Forum: Installation Support Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 9:19 pm Subject: Can SMS be the better NAS? |
| Let us stay on the NAS/Raid issue. I am (still!) rebuilding my old file structure after having mdadm-assembled the old disks on SMS. My issue is, speed. It is way TOO slow. I knew it would be so, and ... |
| Topic: Fluxbox - best lightweight WM |
DiMag
Replies: 4
Views: 24939
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Forum: Suggestions Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2013 2:55 pm Subject: Fluxbox - best lightweight WM |
| Actually I was quick to accept the goodness of KDE. Konqueror is a bad choice. When I want to browse the net I need a browser I am familiar with - for me Opera, for most other people Firefox. I do not ... |
| Topic: Can SMS be the better NAS? |
DiMag
Replies: 3
Views: 23142
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Forum: Installation Support Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2013 2:35 pm Subject: Can SMS be the better NAS? |
| I wonder: If you can build an SMS-based NAS on a powerful enough hardware platform (including SATA 600, eSATA, USB 3.0, HDMI, a second PCIe GbNIC), and in building this NAS your only constraint as to ... |
| Topic: Fluxbox - best lightweight WM |
DiMag
Replies: 4
Views: 24939
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Forum: Suggestions Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 6:46 pm Subject: Fluxbox - best lightweight WM |
| I didn't realize that this was a lighter (prior to 4.x) version of KDE. I agree about Konqueror being the best file manager/browser available, but I think that Doublrcommander (which I have tested on ... |
| Topic: Fluxbox - best lightweight WM |
DiMag
Replies: 4
Views: 24939
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Forum: Suggestions Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 10:31 am Subject: Fluxbox - best lightweight WM |
| I wish a basic GUI with Fluxbox as main WM was offered as an option in addition to (1) pure text and (2) KDE. Indeed I have trouble understanding the Slackware concept of a KISS system with an anti-KI ... |
| Topic: Minimal optimal components for a NAS |
DiMag
Replies: 1
Views: 18814
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Forum: Installation Support Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 10:17 am Subject: Minimal optimal components for a NAS |
| Beside CIFS and NFS (and optionally OpenLDAP), which servers are essential for a NAS? I assume it is safe to drop all mail-related servers, but is it also safe to drop httpd, mysqld, and squid? I want ... |
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