realyst said:
Just to clarify, my vote for Slackware was purely tongue in cheek
I'm in the camp that as long as it has FS drivers, a kernel and a simple interface for navigating either via the dpab or the touchpad, I'm happy.
All this other nonsense and noise about KDE and Gnome and Ubuntu and Xp and whadjahoozits is silly.
The NTFS thing though, is a good idea.
Yeah, I agree things should be kept slim, I was merely suggesting Compiz as a thing to use to show the device off to your friends (especially the power of the SGX accellerator). For day-to-day PDA tasks, I'm sure Opie or Maemo will do nicely, or whatever takes a developer's fancy to get running on this thing, and for making emulators run as fast as possible overhead in the form of windowing systems and services should be kept to a minimum and activated when needed (like on the GP2X, where services like USB, Samba and the like are turned off by default).
As for NTFS, most portable harddrives use this format (in fact Windows won't allow me to format a portable harddrive to any other format, at least not as long as the drive in question is >80GB which is fairly common today). I'm not too sure about NTFS for use on flash media though, isn't NTFS supposed to be a journaling file system (at least
it is according to Microsoft).
Journaling??? hmmm I bet MS still gets a bunch of calls about tech support in xp...and xp still blue screens...just not as often. matter of fact chkdsk gets replaced by whatchamacallit even though you cancel it before it scans.
granted its a tossup to whether you go for NTFS or FAT32...because both will handle the space. its just some iffy stuff unless you go beyond 40gb. anything beyond 40gb has to be NTFS. well let me rephrase that. FAT32 can format to 32gb. It can still mount the rest of the partition or just split it up in 32gb partitions. but at this rate the problem with anything beyond 40gb is FAT32 gets very slow and reading data over large volumes.