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  • few questions from a windows convert

    first thing, i was always removing spyware from my windows install. do i still need to be concerned about this with linux?

    secondly, do i ever need to defragment my harddrive? or does ReiserFS ( the file system my linux install uses) eliminate this problem?

    thanks in advance

  • #2
    Ive never noticed any spyware problems on my linux box. As for the second you don't need to defrag your hd, the *nix filesystems in general are much much better about avoiding fragmentation than windows is :cheers:

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    • #3
      ah, thanks for the reply :D

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      • #4
        coming back to this...is there any maintenance i should do to my box to keep it tip top?

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        • #5
          Just keep all your software up to date, although the method for doin this varies between distro's :cheers:

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          • #6
            Any links to guides for doing that? For lets say Red Hat and Mandrake?

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            • #7
              For Mandrake check out this thread: http://forums.tweaktown.com/showthre...&threadid=8680
              Asklepios put up some good links about URPMI there :thumb: For Redhat I would suggest apt-rpm, which you can check out here :cheers:

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              • #8
                ah...urpmi.
                that really is a great piece of app. anything that even comes near it would be emerge of gentoo otherwise nothing beats that thing.
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                • #9
                  I love my emerge :D apt on Debian is another exceptional package manager, but as long as I got the CPU power to compile everything I'm never giving up Gentoo :woot:

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