SSD use

AndyPix

Stoke wrote: »

I'm trying to make a point to Andy.

You are failing miserably

Fightsback

Stoke wrote: »

Let's not confuse anything here. The Linux Kernel is Linux really. I'm not confusing Android with say Debian which is merely a different type of distro, and uses an entirely different set of components..

The Android Kernel is a heavily modified Linux Kernel, you can't just drop in the latest vanilla. User space also works very differently. Android is not a GNU distribution

Stoke

Fightsback wrote: »

The Android Kernel is a heavily modified Linux Kernel, you can't just drop in the latest vanilla. User space also works very differently. Android is not a GNU distribution

True, although you can combine the two to make a vanilla kernel + android.

Fightsback

Stoke wrote: »

True, although you can combine the two to make a vanilla kernel + android.

Uh ?

You have to add all the patches then recompile with the correct compilation flags, no small task.

Stoke

Fightsback wrote: »

Uh ?

You have to add all the patches then recompile with the correct compilation flags, no small task.

I've done it

Long story why....

Fightsback

Stoke wrote: »

I've done it

Long story why....

Source code and compiled binaries please

AndyPix

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It's September 23, 1996. It's a Monday. The Macarena is pumping out of the office radio, mid-way through its 14 week run at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, doing little to improve the usual Monday gloom.
Easing yourself into the week, you idly thumb through a magazine, and read about Windows NT 4.0, released just a couple of months previous. You wonder to yourself whether Microsoft's hot new operating system might finally be worth using.
Then it's down to work. Microsoft can keep its fancy GUIs and graphical server operating systems. NetWare 3.12 is where it's at: bulletproof file and print sharing. The server, named INTEL after its process, needs an update, so you install it and reboot. It comes up fine, so you get on with the rest of your day.
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Sixteen and a half years later, INTEL's hard disks—a pair of full height 5.25 inch 800 MB Quantum SCSI devices—are making some disconcerting noises from their bearings, and you're tired of the complaints. It's time to turn off the old warhorse

AndyPix

Back in 2016, and in a thread discussing whether its best to leave a home computer running forever or not.


AndyPix has become a bit confused as to how the discussion ended up being about servers and phones, which clearly do not benefit in the slightest to be turned off when not in use.

Strider590

OP is slightly unclear as to whether they mean turning the PC off or disconnecting from the mains supply.

In which case I will say that disconnecting the mains is a really good way to screw up your powersupply (which is designed to be left on).

It's a good idea to at least restart a PC once in a day, for me if certain software or certain PC games (like GTAV) crashes, it won't run again without a restart, this is because a lot of software relies on other software components in the system and simply closing the offending program isn't enough to reset things. Sometimes force closing and restarting explorer.exe can have the same effect, but this can mess other things up too.