Comments on: Distro considerations http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/distro-considerations/ Conning people into thinking I'm intelligent. Since 1982. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:31:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Karanbir Singh http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/distro-considerations/comment-page-1/#comment-128 Karanbir Singh Tue, 07 Dec 2004 01:51:35 +0000 http://swaroop.textdriven.com/archives/2004/12/05/distro-considerations/#comment-128 <p>Gentos has GRP packages you can use to install as well ( they are precompiled using a default set of optimisations ), so you dont need to recompile everything from scratch. If you do decide to do a Stage2 install ( that compiles itself ) - budget for about 4 - 6 hours. You need to keep in mind that Gentoo is a fast moving platform, packages and setup's can change / upgrade in very short time spans.</p> <p>If you are looking for a stable platform, that is going to be around for a while.. check out Centos.</p> <p>Up at 6:00am demands respect! Its 2:00am here - and I am now off to bed.</p> Gentos has GRP packages you can use to install as well ( they are precompiled using a default set of optimisations ), so you dont need to recompile everything from scratch. If you do decide to do a Stage2 install ( that compiles itself ) – budget for about 4 – 6 hours. You need to keep in mind that Gentoo is a fast moving platform, packages and setup’s can change / upgrade in very short time spans.

If you are looking for a stable platform, that is going to be around for a while.. check out Centos.

Up at 6:00am demands respect! Its 2:00am here – and I am now off to bed.

]]> By: Swaroop C H http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/distro-considerations/comment-page-1/#comment-127 Swaroop C H Tue, 07 Dec 2004 01:23:41 +0000 http://swaroop.textdriven.com/archives/2004/12/05/distro-considerations/#comment-127 <p>Karan: Gentoo seems cool but I certainly don't have the patience of waiting 3-4 hours for it to compile and install on my machine... how much time would it take on a P4 1.7 GHz machine?</p> <p>Btw, it's the former (I'm up early) for a change! ;)</p> Karan: Gentoo seems cool but I certainly don’t have the patience of waiting 3-4 hours for it to compile and install on my machine… how much time would it take on a P4 1.7 GHz machine?

Btw, it’s the former (I’m up early) for a change! ;)

]]> By: Karanbir Singh http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/distro-considerations/comment-page-1/#comment-126 Karanbir Singh Tue, 07 Dec 2004 01:11:47 +0000 http://swaroop.textdriven.com/archives/2004/12/05/distro-considerations/#comment-126 <p>Quick side note : are you up early today ? or working late from yesterday ? :D</p> Quick side note : are you up early today ? or working late from yesterday ? :D

]]> By: Karanbir Singh http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/distro-considerations/comment-page-1/#comment-125 Karanbir Singh Tue, 07 Dec 2004 01:11:10 +0000 http://swaroop.textdriven.com/archives/2004/12/05/distro-considerations/#comment-125 <p>On the server side of things, its Centos 3.3 ( RHEL rebuild ) all the way + am quite involved with the Centos developement.</p> <p>On the client side ( read notebooks ) its a mix between Gentoo ( it really is quicker ) and Centos ( need to keep the work machines in sync with one platform / system ).</p> On the server side of things, its Centos 3.3 ( RHEL rebuild ) all the way + am quite involved with the Centos developement.

On the client side ( read notebooks ) its a mix between Gentoo ( it really is quicker ) and Centos ( need to keep the work machines in sync with one platform / system ).

]]> By: Swaroop C H http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/distro-considerations/comment-page-1/#comment-124 Swaroop C H Tue, 07 Dec 2004 00:56:04 +0000 http://swaroop.textdriven.com/archives/2004/12/05/distro-considerations/#comment-124 <p>Karan: Sify just requires a LAN card to a shared network connection provided by the local cable-wallah. Some hacking could be done, but my networking knowledge is terrible!</p> <p>So, which distro do you use?</p> Karan: Sify just requires a LAN card to a shared network connection provided by the local cable-wallah. Some hacking could be done, but my networking knowledge is terrible!

So, which distro do you use?

]]> By: Karanbir Singh http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/distro-considerations/comment-page-1/#comment-123 Karanbir Singh Mon, 06 Dec 2004 18:09:58 +0000 http://swaroop.textdriven.com/archives/2004/12/05/distro-considerations/#comment-123 <p>What sort of a network does Sify Broadband use ? isnt it possible to hack in something to get you online ?</p> <p>Also, going by what you write about here on the blog, 'ease of install' doesent seem to be the kind of thing that I would consider rates very high with someone who knows whats going on....</p> <p>Now might be a good time to point out that I dont actually use any Debian based distro....</p> What sort of a network does Sify Broadband use ? isnt it possible to hack in something to get you online ?

Also, going by what you write about here on the blog, ‘ease of install’ doesent seem to be the kind of thing that I would consider rates very high with someone who knows whats going on….

Now might be a good time to point out that I dont actually use any Debian based distro….

]]> By: Pradeep http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/distro-considerations/comment-page-1/#comment-122 Pradeep Mon, 06 Dec 2004 08:48:58 +0000 http://swaroop.textdriven.com/archives/2004/12/05/distro-considerations/#comment-122 <p>Dude! try the mepis irc at freenode.net</p> <h1>mepis</h1> <p>or even the forum for that matter @ mepislovers.com funny name for a OS user group :)</p> Dude! try the mepis irc at freenode.net

mepis

or even the forum for that matter @ mepislovers.com funny name for a OS user group :)

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