Re: Best sleek, trimmed down server distribution

2005-02-23 Thread Kenneth Burgener
Corey Edwards wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 22:45, Kenneth Burgener wrote: How is Sarge different from Debian? Sarge is the codename for the soon-to-be-released version of Debian, just as the current stable release is known as Woody. Each version is named after a Toy Story character. Sid, Sarge, Wo

Re: Best sleek, trimmed down server distribution

2005-02-23 Thread Kenneth Burgener
Corey Edwards wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 22:45, Kenneth Burgener wrote: How is Sarge different from Debian? Sarge is the codename for the soon-to-be-released version of Debian, just as the current stable release is known as Woody. Each version is named after a Toy Story character. Sid, Sarge, Wo

Re: Best sleek, trimmed down server distribution

2005-02-23 Thread Corey Edwards
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 22:45, Kenneth Burgener wrote: > How is Sarge different from Debian? Sarge is the codename for the soon-to-be-released version of Debian, just as the current stable release is known as Woody. Each version is named after a Toy Story character. Sid, Sarge, Woody, Potato, Slink,

Re: Best sleek, trimmed down server distribution

2005-02-23 Thread Kenneth Burgener
David Smith wrote: David Smith wrote: I have always loved Debian for this kind of setup. I usually use the testing distribution, to avoid the massive updates in unstable and the old package versions in stable. The install footprint is small for a minimal install, around 200Mb, and even a 90Mhz pro

Re: Best sleek, trimmed down server distribution

2005-02-23 Thread Kenneth Burgener
Corey Edwards wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 22:25, David Smith wrote: Yes, you only need one CD. I usually find the smallest netinst with a 2.4 kernel (this was about 2 years ago), and use that. Try it here: http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ This one (unofficial) is only 186MB: http://ftp.fi.debia

Re: Best sleek, trimmed down server distribution

2005-02-23 Thread Kenneth Burgener
Well Debian was a bust. Not only did it not support ReiserFS, but it also did not detect my Network card like the other distributions, plus when I went to enable the module, it isn't even listed. I guess it's off to the next contestant. I was really looking for to playing with APT. Maybe I

Re: Best sleek, trimmed down server distribution

2005-02-23 Thread Kenneth Burgener
Corey Edwards wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 22:25, David Smith wrote: Yes, you only need one CD. I usually find the smallest netinst with a 2.4 kernel (this was about 2 years ago), and use that. Try it here: http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ This one (unofficial) is only 186MB: http://ftp.fi.debia

Re: Best sleek, trimmed down server distribution

2005-02-23 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 10:05 pm, Kenneth Burgener wrote: > Which distribution would you say would be the best for a LAMP server. > The machine is an OLD AMD K6-2 500MHz, 128MB RAM system. I want a > lightning fast simple, trimmed down, non gui loaded Linux distribution. > Any suggestions?

Re: Best sleek, trimmed down server distribution

2005-02-23 Thread Corey Edwards
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 22:25, David Smith wrote: > Yes, you only need one CD. I usually find the smallest netinst with a 2.4 > kernel (this was about 2 years ago), and use that. Try it here: > > http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ > > This one (unofficial) is only 186MB: > > http://ftp.fi.debia

Re: Best sleek, trimmed down server distribution

2005-02-23 Thread David Smith
> David Smith wrote: >> I have always loved Debian for this kind of setup. I usually use the >> testing distribution, to avoid the massive updates in unstable and the >> old >> package versions in stable. The install footprint is small for a minimal >> install, around 200Mb, and even a 90Mhz proce

Re: Best sleek, trimmed down server distribution

2005-02-23 Thread Kenneth Burgener
David Smith wrote: I have always loved Debian for this kind of setup. I usually use the testing distribution, to avoid the massive updates in unstable and the old package versions in stable. The install footprint is small for a minimal install, around 200Mb, and even a 90Mhz processor with 48Mb RAM

Re: Best sleek, trimmed down server distribution

2005-02-23 Thread David Smith
> Which distribution would you say would be the best for a LAMP server. > The machine is an OLD AMD K6-2 500MHz, 128MB RAM system. I want a > lightning fast simple, trimmed down, non gui loaded Linux distribution. > Any suggestions? I have heard that Gentoo, Debian, or Slackware are > the most

Best sleek, trimmed down server distribution

2005-02-23 Thread Kenneth Burgener
Which distribution would you say would be the best for a LAMP server. The machine is an OLD AMD K6-2 500MHz, 128MB RAM system. I want a lightning fast simple, trimmed down, non gui loaded Linux distribution. Any suggestions? I have heard that Gentoo, Debian, or Slackware are the most sleek d

Re: Suse Install Issues

2005-02-23 Thread Daniel Timpson
Maybe someone has already asked this but have you verified your media? The checksums, are they good? Dan On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:51:27 -0700, Eric Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to like Suse, I really am. But I can't even get it to > install. Every time it dies at the same plac

Human readable: ls -h for top and ps

2005-02-23 Thread David Smith
When using ps and top, I would like to read virtual memory size and resident memory size in human readable format (like 1.0 M instead of 1032), much like 'ls -h' does for file sizes. So, rather than this: USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.0 1492

Re: The Undead Process

2005-02-23 Thread Doran Barton
Not long ago, Matthew Frederico proclaimed... > Anbody know how to kill the Zombie processes .. without rebooting? Figure out if there's a resource it's locked over... and free it. -=Fozz -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] is Doran L. Barton, president, Iodynamics LLC Iodynamics: Linux solutions - Web develo

The Undead Process

2005-02-23 Thread Matthew Frederico
Anbody know how to kill the Zombie processes .. without rebooting? -- -- Matthew Frederico http://www.ultrize.com .===. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `=

Re: white screen on monitor

2005-02-23 Thread Jared Bernard
I think I've narrowed down the cause of the white screen issue on this laptop. I have the problem whenever I boot the computer when the battery is low. This is regardless of whether or not it's plugged in. If I take the battery out and wake up the computer while it's plugged in. I don't have a pro