Despite previous ‘tweaks’, I have been experiencing continuing problems with SD Card Linux performance, and with the unreliable operations of yum / rpm, with associated db corruption, when they have to be ‘killed’ after hanging..

Based on two excellent pieces of prior research:

http://blogofterje.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/optimizing-fs-on-sd-card/     and    http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/projects-and-collaboration-general/optimizing-linux-for-flash-memory

– I will be having a stimulating (!) time performing formatting and filesystem surgery on my new 32GB SD Card for the Raspberry Pi, and then – if successful –  performing the same ‘magic’ on my old Dreamplug..