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Terapin Mine Review

Posted by timothy on from the does-the-mine-get-the-shaft dept.

Ian Bell writes: "Designtechnica has just posted a review of the Terapin Mine. This handheld device has a 10gb hard drive, ethernet port, PCMCIA port, USB 2.0 and a front display. On top of all this it has a Linux OS installed complete with scandisk and defrag. You can hook this unit up to your television to view pictures as well. I know that the stats on this unit sound great, but you would be surprised by just how usable it is. Click Here for the full review." Whether it's 10 or 20 gigs (the review mentions both figures) doesn't really affect the reviewer's conclusion.

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  1. Windows XP corp. key by Dessimat0r · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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  2. Interesting design, poor filesystem? by DaPhoenix · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Okay, the link seems dotted so i can't quite access it right now, however based on the poster's comments, why in gods name would you need a defrag and scandisk program for this system. Particularly if it runs a derivative of GNU/Linux. Did they decide to run this system with a FAT partition and have linux run in a file? Or are they perhaps using standard EXT2 but referencing fsck? Reguardless, wouldnt a journaled filesystem (ala EXT3, ReiserFS, etc) been a more prudent choice? The nature of EXT2 makes a defrag/scandisk program useless. Obviously for a portable device they want the security of a journaled filesystem in case the battery dies, etc. Neet idea - needs better explination :P

    (I muse at the difficulty of hacking this and converting this to ReiserFS or EXT3)...

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  3. Slashdot really slashdotted the site this time! by dcstimm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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  4. Re:what? by jukal · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    > scandisk and defrag on a Linux OS device? dont they mean fsck?

    ...now I got it! This must be an evil Micro$oft plan: create non-working devices based on Linux, resulting in bad publicity for linux based embeddees and a steady peek in sales of Windows embedded.

    Hey, it was supposed to be a joke - but don't ponder on the idea for too long, or you will start seeing green men and corporate conspiracy in here too.

  5. Re:Huh? by Jonny+Ringo · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    Well it makes a lot of sense to me, but you'd be suprised at how much sesce I make.