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Lycoris Desktop/LX Review

Posted by timothy on from the we-seek-the-grail dept.

JigSaw writes: "Lycoris Desktop/LX (formerly known as 'Redmond Linux') is viewed by many as the new big distribution in the "Linux on the Desktop" arena. OSNews features an extensive review of the latest Lycoris and outlines the good and the bad things of the distro. In short, Lycoris seems to suffer from the general GNU/Linux situation to not be ready to power a true desktop-oriented, easy to use distribution yet."

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  1. Re:review? where? swapfile by garett_spencley · · Score: 5, Informative

    I could be completely off my rocker here but wasn't it ALWAYS possible to use swap files instead of partitions?

    Now I don't necessarily mean swap files directly supported by the kernel, but if you _really_ wanted to use a swap file instead couldn't you create a file, format it as a linux swap and then mount it as a loopback device?

    Something like:

    # dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap ...
    # mkswap /swap

    Then put an entry in /etc/fstab like:

    /swapfile swap swap defaults,loop 0 0

    And finally:

    # swapon /swap

    I just tried this on slackware 8.0 with kernel 2.4.18 and it works. I don't know if this is a "new feature" or anything but I'm pretty sure that as long as your kernel supports loopback devices then this would work.

    Maybe someone with better kernel knowledge could provide some better insight.

    P.S I still don't see why you would want to do this. Espcially considering that in any good install program geared towards end-users they would not have to worry about partitioning (and even if they did it seems to me like paritioning would still be easier than doing what I described above). At least I know that I would still prefer a swap partition as opposed to a file anyway...

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    Garett