Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 18th Mar 2002 18:07 UTC
Many companies tried to create a truly easy-to-use Linux distribution, but as they say in Greece "they reached the well, but weren't able to drink water". Corel, Mandrake, Lindows, Xandros, Stormix and many other distros tried or are still trying to bring Linux closer to Windows' ease of use and the millions of the desktop-oriented users. One of the new distributions that has many people impressed so far, is Lycoris (formerly known as 'Redmond Linux'). OSNews tested the latest Lycoris Desktop/LX and here is what we experienced.
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Disk space set aside for swap is just that, set aside for swap, whether in the filesystem or not. If you put it in the filesystem that just makes it slower, and makes it _more_ likely to have fragmented space. With swap on it's own partition you assure it's set aside from the rest of your data and ordinary data will not have to be split and placed on either side of the swap file.
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Now I haven't seen the installer, and perhaps it asks a question about swap partitions that makes the installation more difficult, but the solution to that is not ask, rather than not make a swap partition. If necessary the user could always add more swap later without re-partitioning by creating a swap file in the filesystem. The only possible problem with swap partitions is that they are difficult to shrink. This is a small price to pay for the performance gain.