Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-20 Thread Parshwa Murdia
are new and switching to it from Windows, which I don't want to compare at all. What made me think for this comparison was the simple question why did Fermi Labs and CERN chose SL and developing but they didn't go for other distros, keeping in mind always that all the distros have th

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-20 Thread Parshwa Murdia
gt; SL6 some time RSN. You say for SL6, would it sometimes prove better than stable CentOS? -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia Making the simple complicated is commonplace, making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's innovation.. -C Mingus ___ Ce

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-19 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:07 PM, wrote: > You could also get the DVD: > http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/centos/5.5/isos/i386/CentOS-5.5-i386-bin-DVD.torrent This DVD is having KDE or GNOME desktop? As I want KDE one? -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia Making the simple complicated is commonplace, maki

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-19 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:09 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > the LiveCD will not install the operating system.   It is purely for > demo or diagnostic purposes. But there comes an option "Install to Hard-disk" after we see the Live CD desktop! -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia M

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-19 Thread Parshwa Murdia
all else fails. > Best of luck and Centos rocks! Ultimately it means, Cent OS is good to start with! -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia Making the simple complicated is commonplace, making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's innovation.. -C Mingus __

[CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-19 Thread Parshwa Murdia
h (as I am not going to download the complete set of 7 CDs)? -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia Making the simple complicated is commonplace, making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's innovation.. -C Mingus ___ CentOS mailing li

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-19 Thread Parshwa Murdia
tch.  I think the > negatives of an annually changing environment seemed to outweigh the positives > of an improved environment even when there weren't significant new > bugs/issues. Even when new bugs are not there, the release go on, that I consider a little negative impact! --

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-19 Thread Parshwa Murdia
ently but want to use one Linux distro, I can say that anyone be it, Cent OS or Ubuntu or even Fedora, at least it is Linux!! -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia Making the simple complicated is commonplace, making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's innovati

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-19 Thread Parshwa Murdia
used, secured bank transactions could be done, prints can be taken and all this I guess without going into the core details we could do but only the knowledge of installation (GUI only) is required. -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia Making the simple complicated is commonplace, making the complicated simple

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-17 Thread Parshwa Murdia
t; the centos.org website.  It will be announced as soon as it is available. Okk, might be because many persons dedicated for this project and in simultaneous effort and when it is completed, they release it with all the details. -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia _

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-16 Thread Parshwa Murdia
14. Nice, Cent OS 6 would be releasing by the Jan end or Feb, I think? Another important thing I have is that like you are suggesting for Fedora or Ubuntu but that the newest cutting edge technology could be installed in the older hardware assuming that the hardware has minimal c

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-16 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 8:03 PM, John R Pierce wrote: the LiveCD does not have the installer, its more of a demo. But then what's the utility of that live CD? -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-16 Thread Parshwa Murdia
> Then only the first one should I download, the first CD and rest are generally not required as you say, could later be installed too with the help of yum install? -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.cen

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-16 Thread Parshwa Murdia
run into problems, please give Fedora > or Ubuntu a try > before abandoning Linux. They are much more up to date and have a much > nicer user experience and hardware support. Means, it is pretty sure or the chances are there that problems would come when we would use Cent OS?? --

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-16 Thread Parshwa Murdia
n again. :) > Can you provide me the direct link for torrent of Cent OS 5.5 (one CD is enough?) -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-16 Thread Parshwa Murdia
://ftp.iitm.ac.in/centos/5.5/isos/i386/CentOS-5.5-i386-LiveCD-Release2.iso> is having complete OS 5.5 for 32 bit, but where could be obtained the torrent link for this particular file? -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-16 Thread Parshwa Murdia
ike yum. Please elaborate. -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-16 Thread Parshwa Murdia
burned and installed. If I am wrong, please let me know. -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Installation question

2011-01-15 Thread Parshwa Murdia
a are same? 3. What Cent OS should I download and install? I mean for a single PC at home, can I install the server CentOS or simple CentOS? I hope that Cent OS would be good to use at home. -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia ___ CentOS mailing list C