[brlug-general] Slicehost?

2007-08-29 Thread Dustin Puryear
So what's the deal with slicehost? What makes them special? I keep hearing about them. -- Puryear Information Technology, LLC Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 http://www.puryear-it.com Author, Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers

[brlug-general] Slicehost?

2007-08-29 Thread Brad Bendily
On 8/29/07, Dustin Puryear dustin at puryear-it.com wrote: So what's the deal with slicehost? What makes them special? I keep hearing about them. Well, what I like about it, not that I shopped around or looked for similar setups, but they give you a complete system all to yourself. They start

[brlug-general] Slicehost?

2007-08-29 Thread Dustin Puryear
Ah, yeah, not bad. We use a VPS with another company, but I can see the advantage. Plus, I can't get a VPS for $20/mo. -- Puryear Information Technology, LLC Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 http://www.puryear-it.com Author, Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers

[brlug-general] Slicehost?

2007-08-29 Thread Shannon Roddy
On 8/29/07, Dustin Puryear dustin at puryear-it.com wrote: So what's the deal with slicehost? What makes them special? I keep hearing about them. -- In addition to everything Brad said, I can do such things as run mailman for a 501(c)3, apache vhosts, run a true mail server, etc. all for $20

[brlug-general] new Distro

2007-08-29 Thread Patrick P
I am working on a project to create a lightweight Linux workstation distro for older hardware, mainly PII and PIII machines. The goal is a functional desktop with easy installation and configuration. This is not a LiveCD like damn small linux but a complete installation distro which uses

[brlug-general] Slicehost?

2007-08-29 Thread Petri Laihonen
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[brlug-general] new Distro

2007-08-29 Thread Joe Fruchey
It sounds great. I have to ask, though, as the devil's advocate that I am... Aren't there enough lightweight distros available already? I'm really not trying to be antagonistic, I'm just of the mindset that if more people were working on a single distro, it could be better than any number of

[brlug-general] Slicehost?

2007-08-29 Thread Joe Fruchey
From the FAQ: How does the CPU scheduling work? Each Slice is assigned a fixed weight based on the memory size (256, 512 and 1024 megabytes). So a 1024 has 4x the cycles as a 256 under load. However, if there are free cycles on a machine, all Slices can consume CPU time. This creates a leveraged

[brlug-general] new Distro

2007-08-29 Thread Jonathan Helis
Message: 5 Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:36:10 -0500 From: Patrick P parspe at hotmail.com Subject: [brlug-general] new Distro To: general at brlug.net Message-ID: BAY105-W485BAE8366552959B55EFCACD0 at phx.gbl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I am working on a project to

[brlug-general] Pinnacle PC HDTV Pro USB tuner

2007-08-29 Thread Jonathan Helis
I've been trying to get my Pinnacle PC HDTV Pro USB tuner card working on 2 different distros. I tried it under Kubuntu Feisty Fawn with no luck and now I'm trying it under PCLINUXOS 2007. I tried the instructions at this site which was mentioned before,

[brlug-general] new Distro

2007-08-29 Thread Patrick P
I found Xubuntu to be sluggish on my 500 Mhz. Define better, more software and better updating sounds better to me. Our software comes directly from the Debian archive. Thanks for the support. Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:23:54 -0500 From: redstickham at