Category: College Life

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College Life Software

Windows and others…


The first operating system I ever laid my hands was fortunately or unfortunately Microsoft Windows.
I don’t understand why this was so. This was in my early days at school. No wait, it wasn’t windows… it was something else… I don’t recall its name… it was something like DOS I think… I wrote my first LOGO program there and then some BASIC. And, in my later stages some PASCAL. Then it was the end of non-Windows operating systems. Then it was Windows all along until I came to this place.
It opened my eyes to a whole new world of computers and operating systems. All this time I didn’t even know that the windows I had been using all this time was a pirated copy! It was time for me to experience GNU/Linux. We had this course called Elements of scientific computing 101. We were taught to compile and run simple Java programs with console commands like ‘javac’ and ‘java’.
We also had a dozen Sun systems running Solaris 6. At this time I still wasn’t aware of supposedly more powerful systems like FreeBSD. Ending todays entry with a screenshot.

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College Life Linux/BSD Software

Operating Systems on my comp…



finally i’ve settled on my oses…
i did take a look at the things win xp x64 didn’t support and it didn’t look very good. moreover it requires a minimum of 1gb ram! i still have 512mb
so i decided to go for the 32 bit one.
so…
lets see what i’ve got here..
20 gb for windows (x86)
20 gb for gentoo linux (amd64) and
10 gb for freebsd (x86).

i downloaded and burnt the 4 cds of solaris 10 the other day…
but badluck….it couldn’t “find” any disks….mine as you can see is a sata hdd
when unix clones like freebsd and linux can support can support the newer sata drives why can’t solaris ?
i was a little dissappointed with this.
today i went out and bought this months “linux for u”
fedora core 4 dvd included :)…its got that new openoffice 2 beta..people say its a lot better than its predecessors

the first pic is about emerging gnome-light

well another week or so to go….
will be leaving to mumbai on 18th…and leave mumbai for kanpur on 25th i think
there i’m coming to the end of my holidays
and my third semester starts officially on 27th

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College Life Linux/BSD Software

I’m a linux freak!

i don’t know what to say to myself!
i spend so much time doing stuff with linux…so far i’ve installed and used a shit load of distros!
my first linux distro was redhat9, when i first used the computers in my college, then when i returned home for holidays, i used knoppix, then installed debian-sarge, then suse 9.1, then fedora core 3, and i went back to college, bought a comp there and used mandrake 10.1 too. since my new comp was a amd athlon-64 processor based beast, i was longing to try a 64-bit os, windows? can’t afford now and was still in beta at that time..
so i came across this debian based live-cd kanotix, then came ubuntu 5.4, was quite good with all the latest stuff, but some apps crashed inexplicably!
i had dreamt of getting gentoo up and running but i failed evertime i tried until i went back home for holidays with my new box!
at home i did do a lot of reading *hunting for information*. and finally got gentoo up! hurray!
one of the best parts about gentoo is its package management tool…emerge!
unlike all the redhat and debian based distros i had worked with earlier this gentoo was a source based distro. so you had the gcc optimisation settings, for compiling, in your hands! this simply is a great distro, i should probably write about it sometime later.
and then it was freebsd’s turn to taste my hard drive! got the cd image and got the installer up and voila this second attempt was successful (first one being back in my college, reason for the failure in this case being that i was trying to install freebsd on a logical partition which is not possible, bsds go only on primary partitions)!
today…its time for the me to try out the amd64 port of debian. there are 13 cd images in those mirrors, that i way too much so i decided to go for the netinstall method..
hope it works… as i write 92% of the netinst.iso file has been downloaded. may luck be on myside now…