Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Sun Aug 16 14:45:50 CDT 2009
Hi Bill: All the various distributions of Linux have very similar kernels... Companies like Redhat and Debian has subtle different in kernels but most of the changes they make are to the interface components, at the command level to give better functionality with their server class systems. The kernels form the various companies take a very small foot-print. So if you are comfortable with just a command line interface you can say run a Debian server on 200MHz beater with 64K of RAM. The next set of desktop choices at either GNOME or KDE. Gnome is like a MAC interface and KDE is like a windows interface. My preference is to use the Ubuntu distro, with the default Gnome desktop which uses the Debian kernel. Even with the full graphics interface, like Ubuntu, you can boot it up on an 800MHz box with only 256MB... Of course the more the faster. Right now I have all my heavy duty systems running Windows but the older computers run the latest Linux distributions very nicely. They all play together very nicely in a network. Also a number of clients who can not afford to or will not afford to upgrade to Windows, I just set up the new systems in Linux, generally Ubuntu and everyone is happy. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bill Patten Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 8:55 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] The history of Linux Jim, I found it fascinating even though my contact with Linux has only been working with TiVo. I, of course, didn't understand half of it but then I don't understand half the code I write either. I really didn't understand the difference between Linux (the kernel) and say Ubuntu, which is merely built on the Linux platform. Like they pointed out in the film I lumped the whole thing into Linux. An interesting hour spent watching a film instead doing what I should have been doing, pouring concrete in my bathroom remodel project. Thanks for sharing. Bill -------------------------------------------------- From: "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 12:08 AM To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Subject: [dba-Tech] The history of Linux For those interested here is a little history of Linux. http://www.cosmolearning.com/documentaries/the-code-story-of-linux-2001/1 Jim _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com