Re: linux in 3rd world

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Author: Alexander Henry
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: linux in 3rd world
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:23:10 -0700, Hap Hap <> wrote:

> Looks like this is really going to happen.
>
> http://news.google.com/?ncl=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4445060.stm&hl=en
>


Those do look great.

They use flash memory instead of hard drives. My understanding was that
flash degrades with each write? I could understand configuring the OS so
there is no virtual memory to mitigate this, but temporary files could eat
up flash integrity fairly quickly if this was true.

--
Alexander
http://ahtechllc.com/
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