Re: Which distro for Sybase?

2011-04-21 Thread Lisa Kachold
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 7:37 PM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com < kitepi...@kitepilot.com> wrote: > Hiya there... > If you were going to run Sybase in Linux, which distro would you choose? > Why? > Thanks! :) > ET > > HI! Adaptive Server Enterprise (aka Sybase) installs happily on both RHEL and Novell

Re: Which Distro

2009-01-12 Thread koder
ct is only a slight, although time consuming PITA. Harold -Original Message- From: Mike Bushroe Reply-To: Main PLUG discussion list To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: Which Distro Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:28:00 -0700 Currently 2 Gig of physical memory, and I think a 1

Re: Which Distro

2009-01-12 Thread Mike Bushroe
Currently 2 Gig of physical memory, and I think a 10 Gig Swap partition that it finds and uses. I was guessing that something was hanging up in the CD/DVD-ROM drive. I ran a memory test and found nothing wrong there. And like I said, both Knoppix 5.4 and Unbuntu 8.10 woudl freeze right after I clic

Re: Which Distro

2009-01-12 Thread Dazed_75
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Mike Bushroe wrote: > I have not yet attempted booting the old SuSe system and uploading the > boot log file to see if anyone can spot the problems yet, but I have > been downloading LiveCD versions of several distros and I have a new > question. > > I have tried

RE: Which Distro?

2009-01-07 Thread Bob Elzer
ist Subject: Re: Which Distro? On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Alan Dayley wrote: > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Mike Bushroe wrote: >> I am once again having trouble with my SuSe 11 system not booting. It >> seemed to occur after I loaded the drivers in Windoze for a >

Re: Which Distro?

2009-01-07 Thread Rhune Lord
I tried both and at the lab at work where I used Clonezilla from Ubuntu/Gnome to my machines where I use Kubuntu 8.04 (KDE 3.5.9) I still prefer KDE over Gnome. Give it time and 9.04 or 9.10 I will upgrade to KDE4. But my CentOS installs all use KDE 3.5.8 and are very stable so it helps to look at

Re: Which Distro?

2009-01-07 Thread Jerry Davis
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 14:52:50 -0700 Stephen wrote: > depends on your overall like and dislike of KDE versus Gnome or vice versa. I have used both, and actually I prefer KDE. But I am equally at home in Gnome. I actually always used both. I would install both, and use the the parts I liked in both.

Re: Which Distro?

2009-01-07 Thread Stephen
depends on your overall like and dislike of KDE versus Gnome or vice versa. On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Nathan England wrote: > On Wednesday 07 January 2009 13:32:20 Stephen wrote: >> but maybe he is looking for an excuse to drop KDE and move to Gnome? >> *snicker* >> > > I guess if someone w

Re: Which Distro?

2009-01-07 Thread Nathan England
On Wednesday 07 January 2009 13:32:20 Stephen wrote: > but maybe he is looking for an excuse to drop KDE and move to Gnome? > *snicker* > I guess if someone was holding a gun to to his head... lol --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.pl

Re: Which Distro?

2009-01-07 Thread Stephen
but maybe he is looking for an excuse to drop KDE and move to Gnome? *snicker* On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Nathan England wrote: > On Wednesday 07 January 2009 07:03:16 Jerry Davis wrote: >> I finally broke down and after 5 good years with my old >> laptop bought one with a NVIDIA board in i

Re: Which Distro?

2009-01-07 Thread Nathan England
On Wednesday 07 January 2009 07:03:16 Jerry Davis wrote: > I finally broke down and after 5 good years with my old > laptop bought one with a NVIDIA board in it. I am very satisfied with it, > (except the DVD drive does not work -- another topic someday), but KDE 4.x > does strange things with NVID

Re: Which Distro?

2009-01-07 Thread Dazed_75
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Mike Bushroe wrote: > I am once again having trouble with my SuSe 11 system not booting. It > seemed to occur after I loaded the drivers in Windoze for a > video-to-USB converter. I tried downloading the latest SUSE 11.1 ISO > and do an update, but it still seems t

Re: Which Distro?

2009-01-07 Thread Stephen
the debian and its offspring ubuntu i think for me is the long standing winner. the package tree is very good, and the upgrades and releases are very stable. and my favorite, great documentation from both canonical and the user community. the only downside i have is that rpm is more prevalent than

Re: Which Distro?

2009-01-07 Thread Mark Phillips
MIke, I have been using Debian "testing" for more years than I care to mention on multiple laptops and desktop computers with very few problems. Upgrades rarely break, and when they do the output from apt-get is usually enough to fix the problem - usually a dependency, and if I install a couple of

Re: Which Distro?

2009-01-07 Thread Jerry Davis
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:53:39 -0700 "Alan Dayley" wrote: > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Mike Bushroe wrote: > > I am once again having trouble with my SuSe 11 system not booting. It > > seemed to occur after I loaded the drivers in Windoze for a > > video-to-USB converter. I tried downloading

Re: Which Distro?

2009-01-06 Thread Jim March
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Alan Dayley wrote: > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Mike Bushroe wrote: >> I am once again having trouble with my SuSe 11 system not booting. It >> seemed to occur after I loaded the drivers in Windoze for a >> video-to-USB converter. I tried downloading the lat

Re: Which Distro?

2009-01-06 Thread Alan Dayley
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Mike Bushroe wrote: > I am once again having trouble with my SuSe 11 system not booting. It > seemed to occur after I loaded the drivers in Windoze for a > video-to-USB converter. I tried downloading the latest SUSE 11.1 ISO > and do an update, but it still seems t

Re: which distro for sun netra x1???

2007-06-15 Thread Randy Melder
Nice! ...Investigating! On 6/14/07, Richard Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Randy, > > A little over a year ago I retired 4 Sun E450's that I had running > Aurora Linux -- they were the only odd hardware pieces in our Red Hat > environment. Aurora is a port of Fedora to Sparc -- you can find

Re: which distro for sun netra x1???

2007-06-14 Thread Richard Wilson
Randy, A little over a year ago I retired 4 Sun E450's that I had running Aurora Linux -- they were the only odd hardware pieces in our Red Hat environment. Aurora is a port of Fedora to Sparc -- you can find out more about it at http://auroralinux.org/ I haven't kept up with it lately, so I don'

Re: which distro for sun netra x1???

2007-06-13 Thread Randy Melder
It has Solaris 8 on it and I have Solaris 9 in a box next to my desk. However, I just simply don't have the time to invest in learning it. If I can't do it right, I'd rather pass. The box is going to do some monitoring and have a non-public web server running on it. That's about it. ; ) .randy O

Re: which distro for sun netra x1???

2007-06-13 Thread Dan Lund
Not to step on toes, but have you thought about Solaris? On 6/12/07, Randy Melder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Group, > > I'm wondering if anyone can make a recommendation for a distro for me > to install? > > Basically, this super cheap sun box is sitting in my test rack totally > dark. It's got

Re: which distro for sun netra x1???

2007-06-12 Thread Matt Nesteruk
I use gentoo on my sparc. very happy -Matt On 6/12/07, Randy Melder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Group, I'm wondering if anyone can make a recommendation for a distro for me to install? Basically, this super cheap sun box is sitting in my test rack totally dark. It's got: 500 MHz UltraSPARC I

Re: which distro for sun netra x1???

2007-06-12 Thread Joseph Sinclair
Ubuntu has a SPARC port (server version, not desktop). You might also look at OpenSolaris, although that is still under the foolish CDDL, so you might not be particularly comfortable on that basis. Randy Melder wrote: > Group, > > I'm wondering if anyone can make a recommendation for a distro f

Re: which distro for sun netra x1???

2007-06-12 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 07:02:10PM -0700, Randy Melder wrote: > I would prefer to install CentOS on it, but there's no port. So... > other than Debian, what do people suggest??? Well, two people beat me to the punch on suggesting BSD (hi Technomage! hi Jeremy!). I've been running OpenBSD on my Net

Re: which distro for sun netra x1???

2007-06-12 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Randy Melder wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone can make a recommendation for a distro for me > to install? > > Basically, this super cheap sun box is sitting in my test rack totally > dark. It's got: > 500 MHz UltraSPARC IIe > 512MB RAM > 2x80GB IDE drives > LOM (no video, no

Re: which distro for sun netra x1???

2007-06-12 Thread Technomage-hawke
I would recommend OpenBSD. it has a port (and I have installed on sun systems before with no vid/kb without a hitch). other than that, everytime I have ever had to install linux on a sun box, its been a real PITA to get running initially. On Tuesday 12 June 2007 19:02, Randy Melder wrote: > Gro