Re: Photoshop blur tool Vs expensive lenses

On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:23:01 -0500, Tam Richter <tr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in <fl4eir$gid$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

John Navas wrote:

On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:29:43 -0900, floyd@xxxxxxxxxx (Floyd L.
Davidson) wrote in <87bq8aw7vs.fld@xxxxxxxxxx>:

John Navas <spamfilter1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A modern virtual memory OS needs free disk space to run effectively.

Many routers, as one example, run with *any* disk. That
is quite typical of embedded systems. Virtually all
Unix systems can be configured to work without free disk
space.

Not to run meaningful workloads with any sort of performance.

Tell that to all the people running diskless (and often headless) Linux
boxes as firewalls, routers, IPS/IDS/boundary equipment, public kiosks,
thin clients, etc...

Linux runs just fine, and performs even better in many applications,
when it's not encumbered with the relatively dog slow access times of
physical drives. That's one of the major attractions of Linux in fact.

Limited special purpose boxes only serve to prove my point.

--
Best regards,
John Navas
Panasonic DMC-FZ8 (and several others)
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