Hi,
Thanks a lot but I guess I live a very long way away. I am in Mumbai,
India. I guess you might have heard about this city somwhere atleast.
Also does most of the later version of Linux simiarly slow. I am only
keen on changing from RedHat 7.1 since it is slow. It takes more than 40
sec. to start any application on it. Even the Netscape 4.75 with it takes
more than a minute to start. But on Caldera 2.4 the speed is very fast.
Netscape browser takes less than 10 sec. to start. I wasn't able to start
RedHat 7.0 on my comp. I am planning to buy the 2 Cd pack from Mandrake but
I want to know if it will work (Seems to be a big problem with Linux) I wish
that while buying my Hardware I knew that Windows was so impossible to use.
I would have made sure that I got a good components that are most
compactible with Linux. Most are still compactible except the most common
problem of the modem, for some reason the Dlink support have created the
drivers only for the 2.4 kernel.
Also the speed problem is more in KDE 2.0 mainly the GNOME is fast
enough. but it doesn't have a good email client. I liked the KDE email
client a lot and found it to be the best of all after Outlook Express. I
tried this software called cscmail but couldn't manage to install it.
I also tried to use Ximian but it has some problems with the perl
installation.
Thanks a lot for your support.
Bye.
----- Original Message -----
From: Randy Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 4:06 AM
Subject: [newbie] Re: Linux distro
> Amish K. Munshi wrote:
> > I am a silent observer at all the lists. But I am keen on knowing
> > about the Linux distributions you have tried. I just have a Red Hat
> > 7.0, 7.1 and an Caldera e-Desktop 2.4, the Caldera 2.4 and Red hat 7.0
> > have very good speed of working but my modem is supported only on a
> > 2.4 kernel. So I have to use ResHat 7.1, I do not have a dedicated
> > internet connection so I can't download any distibutions for myself.
> > Can you tell me if this slow speed of execution is a problem with the
> > new 2.4 kernel, since I have a lot of memory(160 MB) and a pretty good
> > processor (5000 Mhz K6-2). Also which is your favourite distro and
> > why?
> > Sorry to ask you so many questions right at the first go, but I am
> > a newbie and want to enter the world of linux all alone in my friend
> > circle, and if I have to get a Linux distro then I have to buy a
> > Magazine that has a distro (That means a lot of waiting) or buy a
> > boxed product (which is expensive to try distro's for the first go). I
> > have been using 7.1 for a long time now.
> > Thanks and bye.
>
> Amish,
>
> I assume that you found my name on the newbie list, so I am responding
> there.
>
> I tried several Linux distributions about 18 months ago, and they would
> all be considered out-of-date at this point. (Examples: Mandrake 7.2
> and earlier, RedHat 6.0 and earlier, Caldera 2.4 and earlier, and some
> one ofs that don't come to mind at this time.) Of those, I liked
> Mandrake 7.2 the best. One criteria was an installation that worked on
> my hardware, another was software that I liked (and I ended up liking
> KDE more than GNome or anything else).
>
> Recently I tried RedHat 7.2 because someone donated a server for a
> project with RedHat 7.2 preinstalled. I tried installing it on one of
> my machines to have a testbed, but was not successful. I tried
> upgrading to Mandrake 8.0 and troktopel 3 but was not successful, have
> now been somewhat successful with Mandrake 8.1.
>
> IMHO, if you have a working installation of something like RedHat 7.1,
> stick with it until you find a limitation that requires that you change
> or upgrade. There is a fair amount of documentation available on RedHat
> (maybe more than any other Linux, but maybe Mandrake is catching up
> here).
>
> What part of the world are you in? Maybe I can send you Mandrake 7.2 or
> 8.1 if it doesn't cost much in postage (or import duties).
>
> Randy Kramer
>
>
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