Hi Aravindhan: Please send me your postal address and one of the volunteers will deliver you the DVD/CDs or we'll send it through M/s. Professional Courier.
We use this model to get the BSD/Gentoo/openSUSE CD/DVDs delivered to the Engineering team members. Please let me know. thanks Saifi. On Sun, 12 Apr 2009, Aravindhan Krishnan wrote: > Hi Saifi, > > I am interested in trying different distros. How can I get the DVDs? Please > let me know. > > Thanks, > > Aravindhan > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Saifi Khan <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > On Sun, 12 Apr 2009, Aravindhan Krishnan wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have installed fc9 on my PC (1GB RAM). I found that the memory usage > > > increases gradually, even if I don't run any applications. At one point > > of > > > time the memory usage reaches 990 MB and the system hangs when I start > > any > > > application. > > > > > > [aravind...@localhost ~]$ free -m > > > total used free shared buffers cached > > > Mem: 1000 588 411 0 14 209 > > > -/+ buffers/cache: 364 635 > > > Swap: 1027 0 1027 > > > > > > Just before 5 min, used memory was 515 MB .!!! > > > > > > Any suggestions to get over this? > > > > > > > Use Gentoo Linux or openSUSE Linux 11.1 > > > > Just to give you an idea of my machine Gentoo Linux run-time > > characteristics, here are the details: > > > > sa...@linux-speed:~ $ free -m > > total used free shared buffers cached > > Mem: 2016 1789 227 0 86 1348 > > -/+ buffers/cache: 354 1662 > > Swap: 964 0 964 > > > > I'm running KDE 3.5.9 with all KDE applications + firefox + vim > > + openoffice 2.4.2. > > > > sa...@linux-speed:~ $ /sbin/lsmod > > Module Size Used by > > 8139too 21504 0 > > bcm43xx 118504 0 > > 8139cp 18432 0 > > snd_hda_intel 283296 0 > > snd_pcm 65160 1 snd_hda_intel > > snd_timer 17668 1 snd_pcm > > snd_page_alloc 7688 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm > > snd_hwdep 6532 1 snd_hda_intel > > snd 42500 4 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep > > ieee80211softmac 28032 1 bcm43xx > > ieee80211 43372 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac > > ieee80211_crypt 4224 1 ieee80211 > > soundcore 5472 1 snd > > > > Many of us as users and all of engineering team uses one of > > these distros and we can help you with issues related to either > > Gentoo and openSUSE. > > > > Let me know, if you want the DVD's shipped. > > > > thanks > > Saifi.
