On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 22:49:52 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 02 Mar 2005 2:43 am, Ajay Mulwani wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 22:58:12 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > On Tuesday 01 Mar 2005 8:49 pm, Ajay Mulwani wrote: > > > > Yes, but be sure RHEL 2.1's performance is just too bad on SATA > > > > drives. FYI: RHEL 2.1 is not free. If you are looking for freewares > > > > RH9.0 should be a good option. > > > > > > What makes you say that RH 2.1 is bad on performance with SATA? > > > I haven't found any such performance issues. > > > > In my experience the installation process which usually takes 25-45 > > minutes on an IBM MPro with SATA disks on any other version takes > > about 1 hour and 30 min with RHEL2.1. Writing 1G file takes more then > > 5 minutes and it has load average of about 4-5 during the process. > > Disk write performance is 3.5 M/s instead of 55M/s > > > > Download bonnie++ from http://sourceforge.net/projects/bonnie/ and > > find the disk performance. > > > > The above is what has been observed with RHEL2.1 (with any Update) on IBMs. > > > > I just shared my experience; you probably have a different model, > > different kernel etc.. > > > > Yes, I've used SMP kernels on my testing machines. Which SATA disks are you > using ?? Maybe they are the issue ?? > > > > And what is your definition of "free" ? > > > > In this context "free" means you don't have to pay a single penny. > > RH7.x, RH8.0, RH9.0 and Fedora are free, you can download fedora from > > > > I thought free in terms of freedom.
thats the GNU statement... this mail thread was initially enquiring in terms of costs only. > > > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/iso/ > > > > I couldn't find the link for RH7.x, 8.0 or 9.0, probably because > > redhat has declared EOL for them. > > > > You still need to pay the bandwidth resource charges. Yes, those are your expenses to the bandwidth provider. The money will not go into redhat's (or OS provider's) pocket. > > > However Redhat's enterprise versions namely: RHEL2.1, 3.0 and 4.0 are > > license based. You need an RHN login account in order to download the > > ISOs. > > > > You still can download the sources or go for White Box Linux. > Possibly yes, but how close is White Box Linux to redhat is ? Ajay _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
