From lythoner at gmail.com Mon Oct 15 18:48:22 2007 From: lythoner at gmail.com (Lythoner LY) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:18:22 +0530 Subject: [cAos] cAOS Info Message-ID: <40acc4be0710151848vb2fae7bsee8c4f96f314dc2@mail.gmail.com> Hi, I am looking for a light weight Linux distribution, on the way I found cAOS Linux project long time (6 months) back. I downloaded & Installed cAOS 2.0on my computer but cAOS replaced my Windows XP without any warning. I am really surprised to see that. That is a long story. Again I started my search for lean Linux, still I feel cAOS is the good choice. I am a newbie to Linux & I wanted a Linux distribution to launch my web site. Currently I am using Cent OS 4 releases, somehow I feel cAOS Linux shall meet my requirements. I visited WikiPedia (url : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAos_Linux) page, it says the project state is "Abandoned". I have a set of questions, please help me out. 1. Is this project is still Active? There is no update in the patch releases for the past one year. No modification in home page. 2. Is cAOS 3.0 is stable now? Or should I use cAOS 2.0? Which is stable? 3. Is it recommended to start with cAOS now? Please note that I needed the servers for production site. I may not be able to fix/hack much Linux issues since I am newbie to Linux world and I wanted to migrate to Windows to Linux in another 1 year time. I am very sorry to ask about Project status at all. I tried my best to search internet & official cAOS site regarding updates, but I couldn't find any for the past one year. Today I tried cAOS User group and I saw couple of people asking questions, so I am posting this mail. Regards, Lythoner -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.infiscale.org/pipermail/caos/attachments/20071016/4c47f4ca/attachment.html From mej at caoslinux.org Tue Oct 16 10:20:44 2007 From: mej at caoslinux.org (Michael Jennings) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:20:44 -0700 Subject: [cAos] cAOS Info In-Reply-To: <40acc4be0710151848vb2fae7bsee8c4f96f314dc2@mail.gmail.com> References: <40acc4be0710151848vb2fae7bsee8c4f96f314dc2@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20071016172044.GF9782@kainx.org> On Tuesday, 16 October 2007, at 07:18:22 (+0530), Lythoner LY wrote: > I am looking for a light weight Linux distribution, on the way I > found cAOS Linux project long time (6 months) back. I downloaded & > Installed cAOS 2.0on my computer but cAOS replaced my Windows XP > without any warning. I am really surprised to see that. That is a > long story. In order to preserve existing partitions, you must use the "manual" partitioning method. Perhaps there should be a more verbose warning about this. :( > Again I started my search for lean Linux, still I feel cAOS is the > good choice. I am a newbie to Linux & I wanted a Linux distribution > to launch my web site. Currently I am using Cent OS 4 releases, > somehow I feel cAOS Linux shall meet my requirements. > > I visited WikiPedia (url : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAos_Linux) > page, it says the project state is "Abandoned". Wikipedia is incorrect. The project is not, nor has it ever been, abandoned. > I have a set of questions, please help me out. > > 1. Is this project is still Active? There is no update in the patch releases > for the past one year. No modification in home page. Yes, the project is still active. We have numerous updates pending which are awaiting testing and may be currently found in the "testing" repository. > 2. Is cAOS 3.0 is stable now? Or should I use cAOS 2.0? Which is stable? What used to be called "caos 3" is really a significant departure from caos 2. Where caos2 was a general-purpose platform, the new product was specifically targetted at servers, high-performance cluster systems, etc. So it has been renamed "Caos NSA 1.0" and is currently in beta. What is there is currently quite stable, though we are still finalizing what all will be included in it. > 3. Is it recommended to start with cAOS now? Please note that I > needed the servers for production site. I may not be able to > fix/hack much Linux issues since I am newbie to Linux world and I > wanted to migrate to Windows to Linux in another 1 year time. We have caos2 and NSA deployed on numerous production sites, and we feel both are more than capable as server platforms. :) Feel free to join the other mailing lists and report any other experiences or problems you encounter! Cheers, Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "When I was in prison, I was wrapped in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap. People shouldn't read that stuff." -- boxer Mike Tyson on what he read before he decided he preferred comic books From lythoner at gmail.com Tue Oct 16 21:34:28 2007 From: lythoner at gmail.com (Lythoner LY) Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:04:28 +0530 Subject: [cAos] cAOS Info In-Reply-To: <20071016172044.GF9782@kainx.org> References: <40acc4be0710151848vb2fae7bsee8c4f96f314dc2@mail.gmail.com> <20071016172044.GF9782@kainx.org> Message-ID: <40acc4be0710162134h5d6b08dav7c157d1d926ec6fb@mail.gmail.com> Michael, Thanks for your kind reply. Is it possible to install GUI on cAOS? Regards, Lythoner On 10/16/07, Michael Jennings wrote: > > On Tuesday, 16 October 2007, at 07:18:22 (+0530), > Lythoner LY wrote: > > > I am looking for a light weight Linux distribution, on the way I > > found cAOS Linux project long time (6 months) back. I downloaded & > > Installed cAOS 2.0on my computer but cAOS replaced my Windows XP > > without any warning. I am really surprised to see that. That is a > > long story. > > In order to preserve existing partitions, you must use the "manual" > partitioning method. Perhaps there should be a more verbose warning > about this. :( > > > Again I started my search for lean Linux, still I feel cAOS is the > > good choice. I am a newbie to Linux & I wanted a Linux distribution > > to launch my web site. Currently I am using Cent OS 4 releases, > > somehow I feel cAOS Linux shall meet my requirements. > > > > I visited WikiPedia (url : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAos_Linux) > > page, it says the project state is "Abandoned". > > Wikipedia is incorrect. The project is not, nor has it ever been, > abandoned. > > > I have a set of questions, please help me out. > > > > 1. Is this project is still Active? There is no update in the patch > releases > > for the past one year. No modification in home page. > > Yes, the project is still active. We have numerous updates pending > which are awaiting testing and may be currently found in the "testing" > repository. > > > 2. Is cAOS 3.0 is stable now? Or should I use cAOS 2.0? Which is stable? > > What used to be called "caos 3" is really a significant departure from > caos 2. Where caos2 was a general-purpose platform, the new product > was specifically targetted at servers, high-performance cluster > systems, etc. So it has been renamed "Caos NSA 1.0" and is currently > in beta. What is there is currently quite stable, though we are still > finalizing what all will be included in it. > > > 3. Is it recommended to start with cAOS now? Please note that I > > needed the servers for production site. I may not be able to > > fix/hack much Linux issues since I am newbie to Linux world and I > > wanted to migrate to Windows to Linux in another 1 year time. > > We have caos2 and NSA deployed on numerous production sites, and we > feel both are more than capable as server platforms. :) > > Feel free to join the other mailing lists and report any other > experiences or problems you encounter! > > Cheers, > Michael > > -- > Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ > Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > "When I was in prison, I was wrapped in all those deep books. That > Tolstoy crap. People shouldn't read that stuff." > -- boxer Mike Tyson on what he read before > he decided he preferred comic books > _______________________________________________ > cAos mailing list > cAos at caoslinux.org > http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.infiscale.org/pipermail/caos/attachments/20071017/f840dd44/attachment.html From andres.more at intel.com Wed Oct 17 05:47:01 2007 From: andres.more at intel.com (More, Andres) Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 05:47:01 -0700 Subject: [cAos] cAos Digest, Vol 9, Issue 2 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Correct me if I'm wrong, but http://www.caoslinux.org seems to be down. (I can reach http://mirror.caoslinux.org/, however.) My browser launchs a connection time out error and issuing a caos update is showing a similar error. ERROR: Could not download: 'http://www.caoslinux.org/getmirror.pl' 500 read timeout -- Andres From gmkurtzer at gmail.com Wed Oct 17 08:15:11 2007 From: gmkurtzer at gmail.com (Greg Kurtzer) Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:15:11 -0700 Subject: [cAos] cAos Digest, Vol 9, Issue 2 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <571f1a060710170815q281ed2ban72f6b9301868d7d7@mail.gmail.com> Yes, I already let the Open Source Lab know. Thanks! Greg On 10/17/07, More, Andres wrote: > Correct me if I'm wrong, but http://www.caoslinux.org seems to be down. > (I can reach http://mirror.caoslinux.org/, however.) > My browser launchs a connection time out error and issuing a caos update > is showing a similar error. > > ERROR: Could not download: > 'http://www.caoslinux.org/getmirror.pl' > 500 read timeout > > -- Andres > _______________________________________________ > cAos mailing list > cAos at caoslinux.org > http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos > -- Greg Kurtzer http://www.runlevelzero.net/ From mej at caoslinux.org Wed Oct 17 13:49:20 2007 From: mej at caoslinux.org (Michael Jennings) Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:49:20 -0700 Subject: [cAos] cAOS Info In-Reply-To: <40acc4be0710162134h5d6b08dav7c157d1d926ec6fb@mail.gmail.com> References: <40acc4be0710151848vb2fae7bsee8c4f96f314dc2@mail.gmail.com> <20071016172044.GF9782@kainx.org> <40acc4be0710162134h5d6b08dav7c157d1d926ec6fb@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20071017204920.GK9782@kainx.org> On Wednesday, 17 October 2007, at 10:04:28 (+0530), Lythoner LY wrote: > Thanks for your kind reply. Is it possible to install GUI on cAOS? On caos 2, yes. Not yet on NSA though. I believe the Caos 2 Walkthrough on wiki.caoslinux.org shows how to install X. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Confucious say, 'Baseball wrong! Man with four balls cannot walk!'" -- Todd Lusk