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Operating Systems Linux Fedora Good free OS Post 302558447 by bakunin on Friday 23rd of September 2011 02:47:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Corona688

If you install Linux expecting WindowsXPButFreeAndCooler�� you will be disappointed.

How absolutely true! Amen to that!

On the other hand, if you are truly willing to learn and understand the tool - a computer and its OS is a tool, after all - you are using, you might be in for an amazing discovery which could well last a life. From washing machines to mainframes, from data base server to WLAN router, there is nothing you can't do. Yes, desktop PCs too - nothing special.

Windows is like a pre-built house. Move in instantly, but if you don't like the rooms layout, that's tough luck. Unix - every Unix and Linux - is more like a load of bricks plus some mortar. Build whatever suits you, but you have to DO it. There is a pre-built house included like in Windows - the distributions -, but what really sets it apart is the possibility to add, scratch and (re-)build rooms as you want until you reach your personal definition of "palace".

You will find an awful lot of things already built in other OSes lack, but you will have to learn how to use them, how to configure them and how to make them work together with other parts of the system. All this means you have to DO something to GET something. Still, the effort is both very rewarding and very satisfying to exert.

I work with Unix systems both professionally and for private use 25 years now - i couldn't say that i know everything worth knowing and still learn new things every day. And my curiosity still isn't satisfied. Not even by a wide margin.

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faum-mergecow

FAUM-MERGECOW(1)					       Reference Information						  FAUM-MERGECOW(1)

NAME

       faum-mergecow - Tool for merging copy-on-write files

SYNOPSIS

       faum-mergecow media-basefile

DESCRIPTION

       faum-mergecow lets you merge the changes recorded in the copy-on-write file with the data on the (untouched, because of copy-on-write)
       original media. This can be useful for testing first with copy-on-write and then finalizing everything by merging the changes back into the
       original media.

       The first parameter is the filename of the original media. The map file and the copy-on-write data will be found by appending .map and
       .cow. (usually this will be ide-#/unit-#/media in your virtual machine directory).

       The second parameter file is the name of the file which will contain the merged data. This file can directly be used as media for virtual
       machines. Make sure there is enough room on your filesystem for this file!

BUGS

       Please report all bugs to info@faumachine.org[1].

SEE ALSO

       faum-node-pc(1)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by the FAUmachine Team[1].

CONTACT

       Webpage[2]

       Project Team[1]

AUTHOR

       FAUmachine team

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2000-2009 FAUmachine team. Developed at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.

       FAUmachine comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. FAUmachine is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
       GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
       version. See COPYING for details.

NOTES

	1. info@faumachine.org
	   mailto:info@faumachine.org

	2. Webpage
	   http://www.faumachine.org/

FAUmachine							    06/21/2012							  FAUM-MERGECOW(1)