On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 08:38:02AM +0200, Jean Francois Martinez wrote:
Another point is that in my experience people who write articles
in Linux magazines are completely incompetent at benchamrking.
For instance comparisons between distros are only valid if you install
both distros from scratch in the SAME partitions: disks are much slower
when reading from internal partitions than from external ones.
What is an internal partition, and what is an external partition?
Do you mean primary vs extended in DOS-speak? Is there really a difference?
Should there be one?
mark
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