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[Israel <israel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/24/2015 02:31 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> ...
Hi Nio
(inlines)
> Hi again Israel,
>
> I think the xedit window will *always* be used in the live session
> (because it is there). I wanted to change from it, because I think it is
> not visible enough, it gets hidden behind gparted and the font is small.
>
> Furthermore, it does not perform word wrapping correctly. The line
> starting with OSX does not wrap, and the last part of it is hidden. The
> *fold* utility in the xterm command line performs word wrapping, so that
> you need not edit line breaks in paragraphs. See my version of
> 'partition-help'. But if the window size is too small, the user must
> scroll, and two finger scrolling or wheel scrolling works. I could add a
> scrollbar to the xterm window, if you think it makes things easier for
> beginners.
>
> I also noticed that the xterm font size (fa default) is absolute,
> independent of the screen resolution, which means that the window has
> the same size in the two resolutions 1024x768 (default in my Thinkpad)
> and 800x600. Smart feature :-) but I'm not sure that it works like that
> in all computers.
I changed this to use xterm.  I trust your expertise here (as well as in
many other places :D )
> I think the advice about swap = twice the RAM is deprecated nowadays. I
> described it in an earlier mail. If you change it, it is very important
> to suggest the same size or larger in Mibibytes for hibernation. But if
> you want to keep it at twice the RAM - OK, there are many old
> recommendations about that. Maybe it helps when the computer has very
> low RAM, but such cases should be covered by recommending minimum swap =
> 512 Mibybytes.
I only do twice the RAM for suspending purposes... otherwise it defaults
to the same size of RAM, unless it is under 512... then it defaults to 512.
If it is over 2 Gig I suggest RAM/2 as the swap size.
2 Gig is more ram than the entire installed os needs.. I suppose you
could run the OS in RAM, which would be amazing :)  It is already so fast.

I agree that it is deprecated, and actually not useful to Linux....
maybe in Windows it would help?  But swap is called something else..
Virtual Memory IIRC

> -o-
>
> Finally, have not fear, I do not intend to upload anything that belongs
> to the ToriOS iso file to the obi branch. I was thinking of editing this
> 'partition-help' file and letting you test it and suggest changes and
> finally accept it (and use it). Otherwise you have to do the main work
> with it anyway ;-)
>
> I might upload a separate tarball for you and other people to test. I'm
> thinking of various things to test, right now mainly the OEM feature.
> But that is another thing, and should be discussed later.
>
> Best regards
> Nio
I agree this OEM feature will be great!!  I would like it to work on
vanilla ToriOS.  I think some of the newer fixes I have may make it work
right... we shall see.  I am going to tar the base OS again and then I
will play around.  I can always OBI back to what I have if need be :) 
Such a nice recovery feature for testing!!  It takes longer to boot &
reboot than to install the OS on this old dumpster rescue machine :)

-- 
Regards

-Israel
ToriOS Team