Roundtable February 2002

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Partitioning (again)
by Raymond J. Henry 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

OK, I've wandered about the Web, and read what I could find about partitioning. I don't know if I'm too stupid or what, but I still can't decide how to partition my drive. Perhaps someone could be kind enough to at least give me some pointers in "Linux Partitioning For Dummies" format..... :/ I'm going to be running a 20 GIG drive. The system will be used for a Web server. At this time, DNS, mail, and Apache will all be run off the same machine. As time passes and my level of Linux knowledge grows, more machines will be added to distribute load. For now, concern is not running out of room on any one partition. Being new to this, I have no idea how much room anything requires. Right now, I've just got / and the swap partition. I'd like to make multiple partitions, and play with disk quotas. I suspect I'll be supporting about 6 - 8 small domains on this system, with say a dozen mail users on each domain. Here's the goods on the box: Duron 850 20 GIG IDE HD 512 MEGs RAM RedHat 7.1 (with Apache, PHP, MYSQL, sendmail, DNS, etc.). Hopefully someone can give me some ideas that will make a light go on........

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Gnome=Microsoft?
by author 03 Feb '02

03 Feb '02

Thanks for all your replies. Yes I do know there's nothing wrong with making a buck from free software, otherwise there'd be no Red Hat among other distributions, but I draw the line at Microsoft. I don't want anything to do with their stuff, including their ideas on how things should be run, like .Net. Call me paranoid, but I think .Net is just another way for big bill to slither his way around. I don't even like the idea of .Net compatibility. It's too risky. Microsoft doesn't create these ideas for fun and games. I think .Net is a trap and Gnome is walking right into it. But that's just my opinion. Again, thanks for the information.

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Gnome = Microsoft?
by author 02 Feb '02

02 Feb '02

I read that Gnome will now be based on Microsoft .Net software. How can you have an free opensource OS with Microsoft code in it? Gnome used to claim that they were 'cleaner' than KDE because Gnome had nothing to do with any for-profit company. Now Gnome says using MS code is just fine. I don't want any MS code in my Linux box! Can we get Red Hat to kick Gnome out of the distribution? That is, if AOL doesn't buy Red Hat.

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Roundtable February 2002