[Foresight-distro] Re: The md5sum for Foresight Linux Disc 1 and 2

[Heikki Pesonen]

"why two different versions?"

I like Suse but Ubuntu has a larger Finnish speaking forum. I hope I
could soon leave the systems managers tasks for my sons computer to
Joonas 12 years and he do not have English well enough recently (he is
too lazy in  the school as was I what you soon will notice).

I will also work together with all the family members to find and to
help them find the desktop design most suitable. Although it's told
that you can configure every Linux as far as you like, in real life
that's only talk.

Ubuntu is told to be quick. But I did a simple test and Suse 10.2 got
2-3 times better results than Ubuntu 6.10 being as "slow" as 6.06.

The test:
Running from the /-directory
find . | grep Suse_menu.lst   - Suse_menu.lst (a copy of
/grub/menu.lst) is on an other partition than / being vfat-format.
That was the same for all. And all of the different Linuxes were on
the same computer of course.

SLED10   Suse 10.2    Kubuntu 6.10
 6"-7"          4"-5"                14"

Most people reacted according to "that kind of test does not mean
anything", but they did not suggest any better. The computer I have
given to my son is made of scrab parts except the processor is Celeron
2,4 and the 512 memory is DDR. So the Linux must be able to deal with
quickly.

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I suppose the DVD-version of Foresight contains more stuff than the
two CD's so I will try Bittorrent later to download it and then
install Foresight to my computer.

On 1/18/07, Paul Scott-Wilson <pscott at foresightlinux.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 08:10:55PM +0200, Heikki Pesonen wrote:
> | Hurrah! I have now the foresight-0.9.9-x86-disc1.iso and the md5sum is
> | the right one.
> |
> | And I started wget -t 100
> | http://www.rpath.org/rbuilder/downloadImage?fileId=11012 for disk2.
> | It's eight a clock pm. in Finnland and wget has the whole night time
> | to get it. I go to sleep, because tomorrow I have start installing
> | Suse 10.2 and Ubuntu 6.10 to my sons and sonsons and sondaughters (4
> | years) and to my somns wifes computer. I must also configure WLAN so I
> | come back to Foresight Linux later. Thank's for all!
>
> Great! Disk 2 is smaller so it shouldn't take as long.
>
> I assume you meant installing to one computer used by all of them and not
> one
> each. Otherwise thats a lot of installing to do ;) If you don't mind me
> asking,
> why two different versions?
>
> When you do get a chance to install Foresight remember to give us feedback
> so
> we can make it better ;)
>
> --
> Paul.
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