Linux specifications

[easg]

What are the linux Red Hat 9 specs?

Max Memory=?
How many processors in a multiprocessor system=?
Max amount of HD=?
Max amount of current users as server=?
File systems supported=?

What are the equivalents for the following apps?

Getright or Download accelerator plus
Musicmatch (For MP3 Ripping and burning)
Cyberlink Power DVD
And a database program as easy to use as MS Access

[mairving]

Max Memory is going to be governed more by your hardware than Linux. I believe with RedHat, anything over 2GB, you would have to use their Enterprise addition. I believe 64GB is the current cap.
Processors - 8 is the limit but it can be compiled to work with more.
HD - No real limit, mostly governed by hardware limits.
FS - What do you mean by supported?

No idea on the Linux equivalents but there are plenty of free choices to try. I don't know of one for Access. Most would require that you know some SQL, unlike Access.

[Force Flow]

Take a look at this:

[easg]

I mean, What files system can linux have access to?

[kilgoretrout]

Linux can access almost all common file systems. NTFS is a proprietary file system and to date only read access is safely available; write access is stated to be experimental and is not reccomended. For cd ripping, a linux program called the grip is very good. You can rip to a half dozen different formats including mp3, ogg, lame, flac. For cd burning, k3b is the best IMHO. With k3b, you can create audio cds directly from mp3 files. RH is very conservative when it comes to proprietary formats and does not include NTFS or mp3 support out of the box although they are widely available as add on packages for RH. If you don't want to hassle with that, try Mandrake 9.1 which includes mp3 and NTFS support out of the box as do most other linux distros.

[easg]

So I cann´t write to a NTFS partition even throut the network?

[kilgoretrout]

I wouldn't reccomend it. Like I said, write access is experimental for ntfs from linux. Essentially, it's a reverse engineering job from the linux point of view and, microsoft isn't giving any help. I don't beleive it will be available for the new kernel coming out this fall(2.6) either. Most people that have linux and ntfs set up a separate FAT32 partition that both linux and winxp or win 2000 can write to as a means of transfering data between the two. Read access is perfectly safe and routinely done, however.

[mairving]

It can write to a NTFS or pretty much any partition type through TCP/IP, just not on the local side.

[easg]

I tested red hat 9 with a 1.2 ghz duron and 128 mb ram pc and it was a little slow, it runs better with 256 mb of ram.

[mairving]

Originally posted by easg I tested red hat 9 with a 1.2 ghz duron and 128 mb ram pc and it was a little slow, it runs better with 256 mb of ram.

It depends upon how you are running it. If you are using Gnome or KDE, you will need at least 256M. If not, the requirements are much lower. I have a web server that runs pretty well on 64M.

[easg]

I wouldn´t want to run linux in text mode, where are scandisk and defragmenter programs or their equivalents in linux?

[mairving]

Originally posted by easg I wouldn´t want to run linux in text mode, where are scandisk and defragmenter programs or their equivalents in linux?

It depends upon the need. You can do everything 'in text mode'. You can only do certain things in the GUI. Plus if you are running a server, it really just gets in the way.

Defrag is not necessary on a Linux system. The file system does not require it. ScanDisk is also not necessary.

[easg]

It means that the server can only be configured in text mode?

And what about current connections, how many users can have access to the linux RH 9 server at the same time? is there a limit?

[mairving]

It is 10 users.....or is that Windows 2000 Pro.

That was a joke. Your only limit on the number of users is how much RAM you have and what you allow users to do. If you don't have anything setup for users to access, then it is 0. If you have unwisely setup some nobody directories, then it is infinite.

[mairving]

Configuring the server in text mode is actually quite easy once you know your way around. Most programs have a config file that you edit, then restart the service. Most of time, you don't have to restart the server.

[easg]

I burned a multisession cd with K3B and it changed all files names from the previous nero sessions to ms-dos names and included the ~ caracter, is there a way to avoid this? some files are executables, will this change be a problem?

[LocoCoyote]

mairving when you say that you write to NTFS by using tcp/ip are you just sending the file out through a network loop or what is it you are doing? I ask because this is an interesting thought that I hadn't thought of! I'd like to explore this further.

[Nirvana]

You should be able to write to any partition using TCP/IP when the file is sent, THe recieving host has to process and save the file not the sending host. As long as windows understands the file extension and what program to associate with it, it should work.

[mairving]

Originally posted by LocoCoyote mairving when you say that you write to NTFS by using tcp/ip are you just sending the file out through a network loop or what is it you are doing? I ask because this is an interesting thought that I hadn't thought of! I'd like to explore this further.

Yeah, my only point is that NTFS only matters if you have Linux and Windows NT/2K/XP on the same hard drive and are trying to access the NTFS drive locally. Over the network it doesn't care if the drive is NTFS, FAT, FAT32, EXT3, etc.

[easg]

This is like having Windows 98 and Windows xp in the same hard drive, if windows xp is ntfs formated windows 98 cann´t have access to that partition, if the ntfs partition is through the network no problem, there is a little utility called ntfs for win 98 that allows win 98 have access to a ntfs partition in the same drive, but that is another history.

[LocoCoyote]

OK mairving I am tracking now. Thanks for clearing that up!