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Archive of entries posted on February 2009

Linux vs Windows benchmark

I found this benchmark, comparing the performance of Ubuntu, Windows Vista and 7 worth reading. Our Linux kernel does a great job !

/etc/mtab~ issue at startup

I don’t know how it really happened – probably a VMWare crash that locked my file system, but after a reboot I got this message at startup : Cannot create link /etc/mtab~ Perhaps there is a stale lock file? As a result, some of the partitions were not mounted and the system was pretty much [...]