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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Should my new netbook have linux or XP? Post 302316144 by blakehennigan on Thursday 14th of May 2009 07:50:47 AM

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Originally Posted by reborg

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Despite that this is a Unix forums I am going to say that Windows XP is a better option. Power control works a lot better in windows and so you will get better life from your battery. Also Microsoft office is the de-facto standard for word processing and spreadsheets so you will probably interoperate better with most people in office formats.

I guess until recently I may have agreed with you. However, I think the LimeBook from THTF, and which is specifically designed as a Linux Only machine makes a cracking little netbook, with a lovely LimeOS (distro) menu system. Really very good on both eyes and brain for those making the transition.

To your point on the subject of power management, the LimeBook can even run on AA batteries when needed, and has an extremely small watt footprint making it one of the greenest netbooks on the planet. Sounds like a toy, but it's not. It's got some wallop.

And although, as you say, Microsoft Office is the de-facto standard in word processing, I don't see how that in anyway detracts from the excellent achievements made in Open Office, and it's interoperability. To the extent that, although I work across continents, and share files and documents, hasn't caused me any major issues for a long time.

Just my thoughts.

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tailf

TAILF(1)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							  TAILF(1)

NAME

       tailf - follow the growth of a log file

SYNOPSIS

       tailf [OPTION] file

DESCRIPTION

       tailf will print out the last 10 lines of a file and then wait for the file to grow.  It is similar to tail -f but does not access the file
       when it is not growing.	This has the side effect of not updating the access time for the file, so a filesystem flush does not occur  peri-
       odically when no log activity is happening.

       tailf is extremely useful for monitoring log files on a laptop when logging is infrequent and the user desires that the hard disk spin down
       to conserve battery life.

       Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

       -n, --lines=N, -N
	      output the last N lines, instead of the last 10.

AUTHOR

       This program was originally written by Rik Faith (faith@acm.org) and may be freely distributed under the  terms	of  the  X11/MIT  License.
       There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for this program.

       The latest inotify based implementation was written by Karel Zak (kzak@redhat.com).

SEE ALSO

       tail(1), less(1)

AVAILABILITY

       The tailf command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.

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