Re: Linux ready for the home desktop?

["Jared Carlson" <user=186@nabble.blu.org>]

 Just in case anyone is interested I emailed a few folks who live on BSD.  They informed me that BSD only asks for a file system check after a bad shutdown.  They had a few remarks about requiring an fsck every 30 boots...  For myself it's not a big deal as I don't reboot too often... 


----- Original Message ---- 
From: Mark Hertel <[hidden email]> 
To: Brendan <[hidden email]> 
Cc: [hidden email] 
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:48:58 AM 
Subject: Re: Linux ready for the home desktop? 

On 3/27/08, Brendan <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> 
> On Thursday 27 March 2008, Scott Ehrlich wrote: 
> > I was considering re-introducing it to them at some other point, until a 
> > few days later, my Linux box (Ubuntu) presented me with a reminder why 
> > Windows and Mac are still desktop-ready, but Linux isn't - the 
> obligatory 
> > filesystem check if the machine has been rebooted at least 30 times. 
> 
> I love seeing foolish, arbitrary statements like this. 
> Windows, when not shutdown properly, has the same message about disk 
> checking. 
> Does it matter that all of my relatives, gf and myself have been using 
> Linux 
> as our only desktop for a minimum of 5 years? How does that fit in with 
> your 
> statement? Perhaps "My parents freaked out over the disk check." instead 
> of "Linux isn't ready."