On Tuesday 06 November 2007 22:38, David Boles wrote: > 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. ;-) In the UK I'd have no problem buying the cdrom sets, but in france this seems to be a no-go. The only only place I could find wouldn't even take my carte bleu for payment, you have to send them a cheque. I don't have a credit card so can't even order them from the UK. I'm not too bothered about the long download time, I was simply giving a bit of feedback to karl that dialup is worse than his DSL. I will post to the Debian user france list, and to the Fedora france list. I can't believe you can't get the sets of iso's in france. I must have made some error on google. Saying that though, i did try a few different search lines, and zilch. Thanks for your reply. Nigel. ps: Perhaps you just have to have a credit card these days to buy stuff. I've had problems with these in the past, and don't want to go down that road again.
