Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Perhaps I'm biased. The last time I tried mandrake was on a server where I
> installed 8.0. It was running mandrake 7.2 perfectly, with the stock 2.2.17
> or whatever kernel. 8.0 = random kernel panics every few hours (likely
> caused by a hassle it had with the SCSI controller on the server I guess).
That's netfinity server isn't it? You talked about that, I remember..
>
> That, and Mandrake seems hell bent on installing a lot of GUI stuff on
> whatever - even a server install. Plus, makes a lot of assumptions on stuff
> you need to install (even a text based install ended up with a rather bulky
> system) :(
I agree. No way you can install MDK below 500MB.
> A few more updates would be required I guess. That seems a remarkably small
> set of updates required.
That't true. I just checked my mandrake account. Recent kernel devfs
vulnarability+gnupg+security alert for tetex etc. May be a download around 100MB
so far..
But since I am runing 2.4.13-8mdk from cooker(I know it's a bad idea for a
prodution server but I was feeling adventurous few days back..;-) I am not
upgrading immediately. Anyway this kernel has a better VM overall than 2.4.8
that sock 8.1 shipped. I have put it as a number crunching machine for a gene
thingy and it's rock stable so far..
Shridhar
P.S. To tell you a joke, one day I was surprised when I found that a vi instance
was taking 103MB memory. Later I found that one of my colleague was editing gene
database which was 100MB in size. Any doze version constantly crashed opening
that text file. (We have minimum 256MB RAM machines). Funy isn't it?
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