On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 18:12 +0200, PerAntonRønning wrote: > Karl Larsen wrote: > > > > I had trouble getting to F7. I really didn't want to but it seemed > > the timing was right for it. After over 200 updates F7 is good working > > Linux. The first thing a new user needs to do is remove Totem and get > > the VLC media player. It has worked just fine through all the 200 > > upgrades and plays anything from mp3 to .wav to DVD movies. It does it > > all. I get things from friends with Windows. VLC never fails to play > > them. > > > > There is still some minor things broken but they might be due to MY > > hardware which is old. New computer is scheduled to be delivered today > > by UPS but they deliver very late, like 10:30 PM local. Then I will > > see if the new motherboard and SATA hard drives fix the problems. > > > > A friend just loaded F7 again after getting the 200 updates and he > > says it is nothing like it was 3 months ago. > Sounds good. But where is it? I have been looking around for a FC 7 iso > DVD, but all sites stop at /6 and then they list /development - is this fc7? It is called "Fedora 7" not "Fedora Core 7". There's tons of mirrors out there...a google search for "Fedora +7 +iso" should present a bunch. Here's one: http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/7/Fedora/i386/iso/ So, start looking at the "fedora/releases" directory tree of most of the mirrors. > Is the iso DVD hidden within the .bittorrent, which I am absolutely new > to? I've never used bittorrent, I have never needed to. As I understand > I have to download a torrent client, as a search tool(?) - is that up > the same alley as FTP? Pardon my ignorance, but i have lots to do and I > must operate on a need to know basis. How do I extract the contents of a > torrent file, is that something the torrent client program takes care of? Bittorrent (a.k.a. "bt") uses torrent files which tell bt how to find shares of the file. BT then goes out and grabs pieces of the file(s) from the various servers in parallel and reassembles those pieces into the right order to make up the desired image. It does this so that no single download site gets "hammered" and has to supply the entire file. Contrast this to an FTP or HTTP download--the remote machine has to supply the entire file to you. If thousands of people want the file (e.g. a new release), then the servers get overloaded and you get that wonderful "too many users" message (FTP) or timeout connecting to server (HTTP). BT "shares the pain" among all the servers and can keep download speeds for you higher as it's pulling from multiple sources, not just one. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - - - - "Do you suffer from long-term memory loss?" "I don't remember" - - -- Chumbawumba, "Amnesia" (TubThumping) - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
