Re: [ilugd] Enquiry about linux
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arjun == Arjun Asthana [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Arjun On Thursday 03 March 2005 10:52, Raj Mathur wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arjun == Arjun Asthana [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Arjun [snip] OpenLX because it is indian and has many added stuff Arjun over FC. It contains CollabCAD, Kalculate, Flash player, Arjun Sun's Java, bootsplash etc. Normally, you wouldn't find Arjun these in any other distros. Also, it is backed by the Arjun company which created Kalculate, the accounting package for Arjun linux. ...and which is not free. To my mind, if one is advocating non-free software one may as well start advocating Winduhs and be done with it. Arjun It _is_ FREE. As in freedom, but not as in free beer. None of CollabCAD, Kalculate or Flash player are free as in freedom. Free as in beer, maybe yes. Regards, - -- Raju - -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F It is the mind that moves -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQFCKenbyWjQ78xo0X8RAtvSAJ9gt7AYhU6U4pVq1/Y9yBIHbW0pgQCeLRh0 NSJ+dsetlQeyhGsmjoBN86k= =a9IN -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Enquiry about linux
On Thursday 03 March 2005 10:15, Arjun Asthana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3) Which is the latest version of linux introduced? Depends. 2.6.10 probably. Sorry, that's 2.6.11 -- Regards, Arjun Asthana Registered Linux User #293731 / /\ # / / \ #(_) __ __ __ __ __/ / /\ \ #/ / / _ \ / // / \ \/ / / /_/\ \ \ #@!8 /_/ /_//_/ \___/ /_/\_\ /__\ \ \ May the Source be with you \_\/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Enquiry about linux
On Thursday 03 March 2005 10:52, Raj Mathur wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arjun == Arjun Asthana [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Arjun [snip] Arjun OpenLX because it is indian and has many Arjun added stuff over FC. It contains CollabCAD, Kalculate, Arjun Flash player, Sun's Java, bootsplash etc. Normally, you Arjun wouldn't find these in any other distros. Also, it is Arjun backed by the company which created Kalculate, the Arjun accounting package for linux. ...and which is not free. To my mind, if one is advocating non-free software one may as well start advocating Winduhs and be done with it. It _is_ FREE. As in freedom, but not as in free beer. -- Regards, Arjun Asthana Registered Linux User #293731 / /\ # / / \ #(_) __ __ __ __ __/ / /\ \ #/ / / _ \ / // / \ \/ / / /_/\ \ \ #@!8 /_/ /_//_/ \___/ /_/\_\ /__\ \ \ May the Source be with you \_\/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Enquiry about linux
Finally it appears that it is just possible to have as many Linux Distributions as groups of people who think this is the right thing for them. You will agree that your right is not my right. The group's strength here depends on the degree of consensus of what is right. These are more of ethical principles of what is right. There can be no law on it. ILUGD as a group stresses and emphasises the virtues and philosophy behind the F/LOSS movement. It certainly can be hoped that each member understands which product stands up to that principles and which one does not. After that, it is individuals choice and the circumstances which make him take the appropirate decision. Remember FLOSS stresses Freedom of Choice. Anand Shankar - Original Message - From: Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, March 3, 2005 10:52 am Subject: Re: [ilugd] Enquiry about linux -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arjun == Arjun Asthana [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Arjun [snip] Arjun OpenLX because it is indian and has many Arjun added stuff over FC. It contains CollabCAD, Kalculate, Arjun Flash player, Sun's Java, bootsplash etc. Normally, you Arjun wouldn't find these in any other distros. Also, it is Arjun backed by the company which created Kalculate, the Arjun accounting package for linux. ...and which is not free. To my mind, if one is advocating non-free software one may as well start advocating Winduhs and be done with it. Regards, - -- Raju - -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F It is the mind that moves -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 target=lhttp://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQFCJp7qyWjQ78xo0X8RAtaTAJ9Wt7eqGrsbXykEA/2M8o3o2boNhQCfTvr3 qu1qcbjKTxHUzKQJTjfzapE= =6ELh -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Enquiry about linux
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 14:20 +0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remember FLOSS stresses Freedom of Choice. I think it is more like FLOSS stresses Freedom of Choice between any sets of products/distributions/software that *are* FLOSS. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya*Puroga Technologies * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: http://www.puroga.com *Home/Blog: http://www.sandipb.net/blog PGP/GPG Signature: 51A4 6C57 4BC6 8C82 6A65 AE78 B1A1 2280 A129 0FF3 ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Enquiry about linux
-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. 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. 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. Ritesh - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCJfW94Rhi6gTxMLwRAk+cAJ9EqDUhG1mPlJNZ/HZ8IFTUh+eKhgCgga0E KMfjF5INV3ASJR1WUUtlUoA= =yeOS -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Enquiry about linux
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 -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Enquiry about linux
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 03 Mar 2005 12:37 am, Ajay Mulwani wrote: 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. I read the subject as Enquiry about linux not as Enquiry about linux cost. 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 ? If you're that desperate to have closeness with redhat, redhat deserves the pay. Ritesh - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCJhsm4Rhi6gTxMLwRAmNrAKCj9zw7GHvVBejZpJ2X2BhW7PfDmACeMmQY zuJo7jh00tcGpeg6000PSYs= =Ns4I -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Enquiry about linux
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 01:29:29 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 03 Mar 2005 12:37 am, Ajay Mulwani wrote: 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. I read the subject as Enquiry about linux not as Enquiry about linux cost. Do you reply all the mail messages by reading just the subject line? 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 ? If you're that desperate to have closeness with redhat, redhat deserves the pay. thats again the personal choice. Ajay ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Enquiry about linux
On Monday 28 February 2005 13:01, divakar gupta wrote: Hi I am currently using Windows XP(Professional) and want Linux as another OS, alongwith Windows on my system. I have following queries: 1) I have Pentium 4,3.00 HT, Processor with 915GV Intel motherboard. Hard disk is 80 GB Serial ATA(Seagate). RAM is 400FSB, 512MB. Can Linux be loaded on SATA hard disk? Yes, you can. If you don't have any free partition, you can do the following: 1) Defragment your hdd 2) Use a partition program like partitionmagic, fips, parted etc. to resize the partition 3) Create partitions for linux. Mandrake has the partition resizing program in its installer itself, IIRC. 2) From where in New Delhi, India can I get Linux for free/at reasonable rates? You can get them from one of the many resources. Ask at the ilugd-cd list. 3) Which is the latest version of linux introduced? Depends. 2.6.10 probably. 4) Which linux is best suited for me?(Red Hat/Mandriek) i need linux for just trying it out and basic purposes initially, and later for advanced applications and utilities. I would suggest you go for SUSE, mandrake or OpenLX. SUSE because it has this thing called YaST which will never force you to go to a terminal to perform even the complex tasks. Mandrake because if you dont want closed source or non-free SUSE. OpenLX because it is indian and has many added stuff over FC. It contains CollabCAD, Kalculate, Flash player, Sun's Java, bootsplash etc. Normally, you wouldn't find these in any other distros. Also, it is backed by the company which created Kalculate, the accounting package for linux. Waiting for your response... Divakar Gupta New Delhi India -- Regards, Arjun Asthana Registered Linux User #293731 / /\ # / / \ #(_) __ __ __ __ __/ / /\ \ #/ / / _ \ / // / \ \/ / / /_/\ \ \ #@!8 /_/ /_//_/ \___/ /_/\_\ /__\ \ \ May the Source be with you \_\/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Enquiry about linux
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arjun == Arjun Asthana [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Arjun [snip] Arjun OpenLX because it is indian and has many Arjun added stuff over FC. It contains CollabCAD, Kalculate, Arjun Flash player, Sun's Java, bootsplash etc. Normally, you Arjun wouldn't find these in any other distros. Also, it is Arjun backed by the company which created Kalculate, the Arjun accounting package for linux. ...and which is not free. To my mind, if one is advocating non-free software one may as well start advocating Winduhs and be done with it. Regards, - -- Raju - -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F It is the mind that moves -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQFCJp7qyWjQ78xo0X8RAtaTAJ9Wt7eqGrsbXykEA/2M8o3o2boNhQCfTvr3 qu1qcbjKTxHUzKQJTjfzapE= =6ELh -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Enquiry about linux
On 28 Feb 2005 07:31:26 -, divakar gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am currently using Windows XP(Professional) and want Linux as another OS, alongwith Windows on my system. I have following queries: 1) I have Pentium 4,3.00 HT, Processor with 915GV Intel motherboard. Hard disk is 80 GB Serial ATA(Seagate). RAM is 400FSB, 512MB. Can Linux be loaded on SATA hard disk? 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. 2) From where in New Delhi, India can I get Linux for free/at reasonable rates? If you have good internet connection download the ISOs from redhat.com or if you are looking for CDs check-out at some Nehru Place vendor. 3) Which is the latest version of linux introduced? RHEL4 is the latest RedHat linux but as being an Enterprise Linux is not free... I think from Redhat the latest free version available is RH9.0/ Fedora. 4) Which linux is best suited for me?(Red Hat/Mandriek) i need linux for just trying it out and basic purposes initially, and later for advanced applications and utilities. I will recommend RedHat or SuSE as I am a user of these two only. Waiting for your response... Divakar Gupta New Delhi India ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Enquiry about linux
u can buy feb DIGIT DVD . it contains mandrake isos . or buy suse dvd from any vendor.it comes with the largest collection of packages . u can always procure one distro from a local user . u may also wanna get a live cd distro like knoppix to try intially . i'm from chennai so if u dont get help . mail me i will do what i can regards On 28 Feb 2005 07:31:26 -, divakar gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am currently using Windows XP(Professional) and want Linux as another OS, alongwith Windows on my system. I have following queries: 1) I have Pentium 4,3.00 HT, Processor with 915GV Intel motherboard. Hard disk is 80 GB Serial ATA(Seagate). RAM is 400FSB, 512MB. Can Linux be loaded on SATA hard disk? 2) From where in New Delhi, India can I get Linux for free/at reasonable rates? 3) Which is the latest version of linux introduced? 4) Which linux is best suited for me?(Red Hat/Mandriek) i need linux for just trying it out and basic purposes initially, and later for advanced applications and utilities. Waiting for your response... Divakar Gupta New Delhi India ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Enquiry about linux
-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. And what is your definition of free ? rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCJKYx4Rhi6gTxMLwRAqqUAJ0bgpinDuzDepASeH9GKwhKpAUy9gCbBDw7 a1KvGBO/qPxiW/llgXm6rao= =RH6y -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Enquiry about linux
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.. 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 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. 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. rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCJKYx4Rhi6gTxMLwRAqqUAJ0bgpinDuzDepASeH9GKwhKpAUy9gCbBDw7 a1KvGBO/qPxiW/llgXm6rao= =RH6y -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Enquiry about linux
Quoting Ajay Mulwani [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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. Freeware? What's that? RH9.0 is not a *freeware*. In fact entire notion of freeware is worst of proprietary software and shareware .Please don't compare any free software to freeware. Komal This message was sent using NWebmail, BSNL's Webmail Program ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Enquiry about linux
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 07:31 +, divakar gupta wrote: 1) I have Pentium 4,3.00 HT, Processor with 915GV Intel motherboard. Hard disk is 80 GB Serial ATA(Seagate). RAM is 400FSB, 512MB. Can Linux be loaded on SATA hard disk? Yes. I am right now using one. 2) From where in New Delhi, India can I get Linux for free/at reasonable rates? Where are you in Delhi? Write in and I am sure some linux user near by would offer to give you CD's for the price of just blank CD's 3) Which is the latest version of linux introduced? 4) Which linux is best suited for me?(Red Hat/Mandriek) i need linux for just trying it out and basic purposes initially, and later for advanced applications and utilities. I would recommend look for Mandrake 10.1 or Ubuntu. If you just want to try then even Knoppix3.7 would be good as it does not install on hard-disk but runs off the memory. -- Sudev Barar [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
