Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-28 Thread satyakam goswami
Thanks a lot sir, I am really looking forward for the meet. I think my topic would be How Linux helps small enterprises and enterprenuers Grow. Regarding Slides, a normal PPT would do?? hmm no ppt just slides using anything FOSS like office impress , css ,latex,s5, html or any other tool you

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-28 Thread Gaurav Mishra
as far as Disros goes Ubuntu on Deb package and Yoper for rpm rules. Hey i am 21 and got involved in a lot of meet and says i am one of the youngest member. On 9/28/05, satyakam goswami [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot sir, I am really looking forward for

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-27 Thread nitin gupta
so now you owe one talk about Your Experiences with Webdev and Gnu[Linux] at the next meet ;-) I would love to, but haven't attended any meet before so a bit hesitated and not sure :( Also I am just 22 years and don't think have that much to share with all ya giants there. Kind Regards,

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-27 Thread nitin gupta
--- Sudev Barar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our youngest speaker was all of 14!! No one is a giant and as to attending a meet all you do is show up and that is just about it. No one is going to ask you for some secret password or anthing like that!! Hello, Telling passwords is not a big

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-27 Thread Sudev Barar
On 9/27/05, Raj shekhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in infinite wisdom [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thus on 09/27/05 12:44: aah I thought that the secret password was Beer The secret password is drinks are on me usually followed by @# :-) -- Yes yesy you can say drinks are on me...if we can

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-27 Thread nitin gupta
--- Sudev Barar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OP was shirking and hence: 1. You are the community 2. If you benefit from Linux make sureother can too 3. Attending also builds mentorship - You get help and you help other 4. Choose a topic you would like o speak on and put it onlist when ever a

[ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-26 Thread nitin gupta
Hello, This is Nitin Gupta, one of Silent but active member of this Community. As i mentioned in the mails before, me and my company Xaprio Solutions is completely shifted to linux from a long time now. We are doing just fine, using FC4, but its very very slow. We are on P4 2.8GHZ with 256mb

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-26 Thread nitin gupta
Hello, First of all thanks a lot for relying, were you present at the recently held freedel event? No I wasn't. Very nice of you , why dont you share about your experiences at the next meet. I would love to, but i haven't attended any meet before so not sure about it. |We are doing

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-26 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-26 06:49:05 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am generally working on 3-4 applications simulatenously including Evolution, FireFox, BlueFish, Gaim and some other small softwares, which i think is retty normal. Get more RAM. -- ams ___

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-26 Thread nitin gupta
hmmm... More Ram, Do you guys think, shifting to Ubuntu or Slackware will do? Is this the problem with FC4 or with the applications i runs or just with the RAM ?? Thanks :) Regards, Nitin Gupta CEO Xaprio Solutions http://www.xaprio.com/ http://www.xaprio.com/forums/

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-26 Thread Pankaj kaushal
nitin gupta wrote: hmmm... More Ram, Do you guys think, shifting to Ubuntu or Slackware will do? Is this the problem with FC4 or with the applications i runs or just with the RAM ?? I use ubuntu with 256 MB ram no probs. P. -- Alas, even today there's little worth thinking and saying

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-26 Thread nitin gupta
--- Pankaj kaushal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use ubuntu with 256 MB ram no probs. Do you use heavy applications with it? Also, Will i be able to get all the packages for it? Regards, Nitin Gupta CEO Xaprio Solutions http://www.xaprio.com/ http://www.xaprio.com/forums/

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-26 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-09-26 07:04:33 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More Ram, Do you guys think, shifting to Ubuntu or Slackware will do? No. Speculation won't help you to solve performance problems. Identify the problem before trying to solve it. And switching distributions is, in general, not going to

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-26 Thread Tushar Shah
Hi, Just use X not the whole GNOME/KDE .It will save u on some RAM . I tried this sol with my older comp it seems to be helpfull but I never actually measured the amt of extra RAM I made available by doing so and whther is actually did inc the RAM to other apps :). Bye TShah On 9/26/05, nitin

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-26 Thread Raj shekhar
in infinite wisdom Sandip Bhattacharya spoke thus on 09/26/05 22:02: * Disable all unnecessary services, That reminds me - wasn't there some issue in FC where the LANG was set to utf8 and the locate fired off through cron would suck up the cpu. Maybe setting LANG to en_US should help ? Not

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-26 Thread Saurabh Nanda
* Disable all unnecessary services, Yes... That's THE most important factor why linux on the desktop runs slow... you probably dont need portmap, atd, sendmail, sshd, etc. etc stop service you don't need! Nandz. -- http://nandz.blogspot.com http://foodieforlife.blogspot.com

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-26 Thread vivek khurana
--- nitin gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, First of all thanks a lot for relying, were you present at the recently held freedel event? No I wasn't. Very nice of you , why dont you share about your experiences at the next meet. I would love to, but i haven't attended

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-26 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Monday, 26 Sep 2005 22:22, Raj shekhar wrote: in infinite wisdom Sandip Bhattacharya spoke thus on 09/26/05 22:02: * Disable all unnecessary services, That reminds me - wasn't there some issue in FC where the LANG was set to utf8 and the locate fired off through cron would suck up the

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-26 Thread Sudev Barar
On 9/26/05, nitin gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted to know is there any better option for us then FC4? It should be easy as some of our team members are fairly new to it, but still Robust and Faster then FC4. Two directions to explore: 1. Look up CentOS. For running enterprise work it

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-26 Thread nitin gupta
Hi All, First of all, thanks a lot for helping us out. I am very very glad to see such a good response of my question. I got the problem, some memory was taken by extra services, and rest by Evolution. I think Evolution have this serious problem for guys like me who are using it for 15 hours a

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-26 Thread satyakam goswami
On 9/27/05, nitin gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, First of all, thanks a lot for helping us out. I am very very glad to see such a good response of my question. I got the problem, some memory was taken by extra services, and rest by Evolution. I think Evolution have this serious

Re: [ilugd] Fastest Desktop Linux

2005-09-26 Thread nitin gupta
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