Princetown University has done a good job out of Redhat Linux core and produced a good Linux base for University and School Use.
What like most was I could remove all Java which is over 300 MiB and use that space for Libre Office which is just over 200 MiB.
Like Hanthana Linux it has Sinhala Unicode and Tamil (free) Unicode for classroom work.
Libre Office and Princetown University packages are in the second DVD.
This information is for somebody who downloaded One DVD and could not complete the installation.
One has to download 2 DVDs
DVD 1 is over 4 GiB.
Second DVD is 1. 2 GiB.
I downloaded the DVD 1, since it was Rehat based (Which I do not use now but my favorite 10 years ago before Fedora came into existence).
Information is given below.
Go to Princetown University download site and get the two DVDs not by going to either Distrowatch or Softpedia downloads.
I could not finish my installation since only 4 MiB dictionary was missing.
But to Princetown University´s credit, it states one needs two DVDs before installation which I disregarded (twice thinking I might have some escape route) and it got stuck at that point and could not escape or continue without the missing packages.
This is the problem with BiG Linux and they forget the minor details and DVD has 4.4 GiB and they had used 4.2 GiB the missing files could have been easily included in the first DVD at least for the English Language users.
It has included over 300 MiB of Java JDK which I hate and easily dropped few of the JAVA BEANs and included Libre Office which is only 192 MiB for English users.
It has NO Live session which is a big failure of REDHAT of today and CENTOS its follower.
This is why I changed and love small Linux distributions.
OPENXANGE is out it looks a nice distribution on a live DVD (it has exceeded 700 MiB by seven points (7 MiB) and one need a DVD (I of course used a rewritable DVD which I can erase after testing if I do not like it.) and not a CD.
This is another mistake why the hell they exceeded 700 MiB which is the limit for a CD.
These are the Quality Points which Linux forgets and why custo\mers HATE Linux.
I think I must expedite writing my book on Total Quality in Linux.
PUIAS / Springdale Linux (SDL)
What like most was I could remove all Java which is over 300 MiB and use that space for Libre Office which is just over 200 MiB.
Like Hanthana Linux it has Sinhala Unicode and Tamil (free) Unicode for classroom work.
Libre Office and Princetown University packages are in the second DVD.
This information is for somebody who downloaded One DVD and could not complete the installation.
One has to download 2 DVDs
DVD 1 is over 4 GiB.
Second DVD is 1. 2 GiB.
I downloaded the DVD 1, since it was Rehat based (Which I do not use now but my favorite 10 years ago before Fedora came into existence).
Information is given below.
Go to Princetown University download site and get the two DVDs not by going to either Distrowatch or Softpedia downloads.
I could not finish my installation since only 4 MiB dictionary was missing.
But to Princetown University´s credit, it states one needs two DVDs before installation which I disregarded (twice thinking I might have some escape route) and it got stuck at that point and could not escape or continue without the missing packages.
This is the problem with BiG Linux and they forget the minor details and DVD has 4.4 GiB and they had used 4.2 GiB the missing files could have been easily included in the first DVD at least for the English Language users.
It has included over 300 MiB of Java JDK which I hate and easily dropped few of the JAVA BEANs and included Libre Office which is only 192 MiB for English users.
It has NO Live session which is a big failure of REDHAT of today and CENTOS its follower.
This is why I changed and love small Linux distributions.
OPENXANGE is out it looks a nice distribution on a live DVD (it has exceeded 700 MiB by seven points (7 MiB) and one need a DVD (I of course used a rewritable DVD which I can erase after testing if I do not like it.) and not a CD.
This is another mistake why the hell they exceeded 700 MiB which is the limit for a CD.
These are the Quality Points which Linux forgets and why custo\mers HATE Linux.
I think I must expedite writing my book on Total Quality in Linux.
PUIAS / Springdale Linux (SDL)
Custom Red Hat® Distribution and Mirror. A project of members of the computing staff of Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study.
Getting Started
To install PUIAS (Springdale) you have a few options. You can download a DVD image, download a boot.iso boot image or download PXE boot images.
There are currently 2 versions supported, 6 is the latest and 5 the oldest. Both are available in 32 and 64 bit versions.
Download
DVD
i386
x86_64
6.4
Springdale-6.4-i386-DVD.iso
md5sum:f8d7b82aab27678479379baefb7fd81c
Springdale-6.4-i386-DVD-2.iso
md5sum:542bea03843541a54524b9ec6ce8d059
Springdale-6.4-x86_64-DVD.iso
md5sum:e1b7a41a00d7fcef7e031432b05e14c5
Springdale-6.4-x86_64-DVD-2.iso
md5sum:aa5a53cefba8d660e7133dab359a3b1f
