Okay I have an embarrassing confession to make: after almost 2 years of having iDefrag on my computer, I discover that the other app that comes with it lets me burn a startup CD. Grrrrrrrrr..............
So, after 4 years, this only the second full defragmentation that my laptop has had (the first time was maybe 3 years ago). Consequently, it was bugger slow and the drive was grinding like crazy. And despite what you may have heard, my OS X really *did* need it (maybe not as often as in the past but I think I can get away with it now).
I've only just done it last night and already it has a noticeably faster startup and Firefox doesn't get "stuck" on its startup. But it really remains to be seen whether at least the grinding goes away. We'll see......
In other news: I finally figured out how to get my brand spanking new installation of FreeBSD (yeah so I'm an OS whore, sue me :D ) to dual boot with my previous Ubuntu installation (which incidentally I updated to the new 8.10 version). Cooooool!!!
Basically, FreeBSD is a CLI* and while I'd had some basic Unix experience before, it was so long ago I really have to relearn almost everything. A gentleman by the name of Randal Schwartz had really piqued my interest in it. FreeBSD is more a server OS than a real consumer GUI* OS. I can make it an internet server, a router, amongst other networking things.
The Ubuntu update which is a consumer GUI OS as far as I can tell ( I really wasn't into it so deep before as to be able to tell any deep differences) has the networking pane redone and some other minor tweaks.
Updates will be forthcoming as I dive into it and FreeBSD more....
LINKS:
Coriolis Systems
The FreeBSD Project
Ubuntu Site
*CLI = Command Line Interface
*GUI = Graphical User Interface
Randal Schwartz
2 comments:
Actually... I don't have much experience at all with FreeBSD, but I have had lots of good experience with the ultra-secure OpenBSD.
Thanks for giving me the idea though. OpenBSD may just be next though! P
-Bronwyn (East_Coast_Girl)
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