Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

[Forrest English <forrest@truffula.net>]

you could tell the people that this is a more advanced OS, and to NOT hit
the power switch.

i mean, it's just a thought.  

i've never had a problem with ext2, and there are power outages here all
the time, and my ups is to weak to handle more than my server and dsl
router.  somtimes i've had to run fsck manually, but after that no
problems.

my .00000000002 $currency

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Forrest English
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There will be no reason for us to live
But when we have nothing left to lose
You will have nothing left to use"
    -Fugazi 

> 
> The situation I'm reffering to here is that of someone who might see a temporary
> interface slowdown or crash(happen quite often in office suites of any kind), 
> and having no knowledge of how linux works, just hits the reset button(this
> could easily get repeated a whole bunch of times throughout the day in a school
> environment, and would do all kinds of nasty things to the fs).  The background
> you seem to be coming from is some kind of server farm or similar setup where 
> the users are all at least competent enough not to do lots of hard resets.  
> Generally speaking, Linux with ext2 is probably the worst OS I've ever worked 
> with for recovering from mundane stuff like that, but I do agree with you that 
> it is much better than most as far as low instance of failure due to actual bugs
> within the filesystem are concerned.  I don't see how RAID mirroring is an
> option though, as it would only serve to guard against mechanical failure, which
> is sort of beyond the ability of a filesystem to affect one way or the other.
>