Hi,
It might be a funny question for you guys, but I really need some help. I need to know the stable and free version of Linux that I can use at my server.
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 11:23:31 -0700, "Brijesh Mishra" Brijeshm@Unitek.com said:
Debian, is what is running on ilug-bom server. You might want to get Debian 3.1 'Sarge'
Anurag
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On 9/17/05, linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in wrote:
You can also try Ubuntu. The current stable release is 5.04 "Hoary Hedgehog".
Sometime on Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 04:42:58PM +0530, Sanket Medhi said:
You can also try Ubuntu. The current stable release is 5.04 "Hoary Hedgehog".
Ubuntu's release cycle is too short, and besides the kernel shipped with it does not detect memory higher than 900MB.
Anurag
On 9/18/05, Anurag anurag@bsd.miki.eu.org wrote:
Is it so? If yes, why? And why doesn't this happen with the same kernel releases of other distributions? Or does it? I have 512 MB, and never heard something like that before, though I would appreciate some more info.
On Sun, September 18, 2005 12:30 pm, Sanket Medhi wrote:
Ubuntu's kernels are not compiled with HIGHMEM and SMP support. However compiling/installing -smp kernel from debian can fix this. Other distros mostly carry an smp kernel.
Anurag
Anurag wrote:
Ubuntu's release cycle is too short, and besides the kernel shipped with it does not detect memory higher than 900MB.
I tried out the ubuntu 5.04 that came along with the Chip July issue and it was not a pleasant experience. Removed it.
Regards,
Rony.
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On 9/19/05, Rony Bill ronbillypop@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Why not? I am using 5.04 and I love it. Now I hardly use my FC4 installation.
On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 23:53, Brijesh Mishra wrote:
All kernels with an even minor number are stable. Eg 2.4.20-8. (minor number=4) or 2.6.12-11 (minor number=6)
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On 9/16/05, Brijesh Mishra Brijeshm@unitek.com wrote:
opensuse which will be out by oct seems amazing to me in my labs
On 9/20/05, SeekingGyan linuxlinux@gmail.com wrote:
What is better - Open Suse 10 or Suse Pro 9.3 ?
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 21:45 +0530, Sanket Medhi wrote:
What is better - Open Suse 10 or Suse Pro 9.3 ?
OpenSuse 10.0 RC1 has KDE 3.4.2, gnome 2.12. I have used it for a couple of days now and seems to boot and run a bit faster than 9.3.
However, the betas/RC1 do not include RPMs for Java, Flash etc. If your video card has a GeForce chipset than stock 'nv' driver display is all garbled. You will have to download the Nvidia drivers.
HTH.
On 9/24/05, Arun K. Khan knura@yahoo.com wrote:
Suse 9.3 Pro rocks! It has all things like Java and Flash preinstalled with plugins. And for an AMD 64 too! I have not been able to get these two things working on Fedora or Ubuntu. -- Regards, Sanket Medhi, sanketmedhi@gmail.com
Sanket Medhi wrote:
No doubt Open Suse 10. I already use this version in my college lab. I have prerealse version of this distribution.
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On 9/16/05, Brijesh Mishra Brijeshm@unitek.com wrote:
Hello Brijesh,
From your question, you seem to be new to Linux. If that's the case
and you want to get your system up and running effortlessly, go for SuSE of Mandriva. Both are newbie friendly and quite stable distros.
Debian is very stable, but not easy to install for newbies. Ubuntu should be (I say should be because I haven't used it) quite stable as its based on Debian. Ubuntu/Kubuntu is newbie friendly. I am not sure if Ubuntu is tailor made for server use though. Having said that, all Linux systems are quite capable of being a server ;)
Red Hat/Fedora is very stable as well and a good distro. But, I don't like it. That's just my opinion though. Like I said, it's quite stable and has good tools for configuration.
There is also Gentoo, which is very stable as well. The portage system gives you the best possible control over the software you install. But, on my P4 1.9GHz, 768MB RAM system, it takes me 3 days to set it up with KDE. That's because Gentoo makes you compile everything and is definitely not meant for newbies. But Gentoo's documentation is possibly the best out there.
Lastly, there's the grand daddy Slackware. It is the most stable distro out there. But it is also the distro that gives you the least automation of any kind. It's package management is quite primitive as well.
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