on 11/6/2007 4:32 PM, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Tuesday 06 November 2007 20:39, Karl Larsen wrote: >> Mike Chambers wrote: >>> On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 05:07 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote: >>>> Fedora 8 will be available at my house in Las Cruces, NM USA in 23 >>>> hours. I have been d/l with my Darn Slow Link (DSL) at 27kb/sec from >>>> a >>>> mirror overseas. I doubt that my connection is causing any problems >>>> to >>>> the mirror. >>> And Fedora 8 will be installed and used on my system in bout 1.5 hours >>> after I install it, starting in bout 30 seconds :P >> Your going to be on it at least 17 hours sooner than I. In fact I am >> still trying to talk myself into even using F8. This F7 was buggy and >> hard to get working right, but now it is a useful system and considering >> I was on FC4 missing FC5 and FC6, and not until F7 did I upgrade. >> >> I am old and do not need a lot of the new stuff on F8. So when I get >> F8 in hand I will make a DVD and put that up with F7. When ready I will >> load it on the computer and get the updates at least. And then check out >> what it does that F7 does not. >> >> If my effort finding problems with F8 are a help then good. But for >> the most part I will be here on F7. > >> Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI >> Linux User >> #450462 http://counter.li.org. > > I'm on dialup with a serial modem. Someone kindly sent me a set of cd iso's > for FC6, but the F7 cd iso's took about 10 days to download, although I was > listening to Internet radio also, so bandwidth was a bit restricted for the > downloads. Thankfully I'm very patient, and as far as I'm concerned, it takes > as long as it takes for a download. > > I'll have to psych myself up a bit before going for F8, as another 10 days of > downloading isn't much fun. > > Just a bit of rambling on. Not sure exactly where you are Nigel, and none of my business either, but there are services that sell Linux distributions on CDs and DVDs for a very reasonable price. And I would think that you could get them much more quickly that way, with less trouble, than a 56k download. ;-) -- David
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