F7 is working fine

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Thu Aug 23 16:34:56 UTC 2007


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?
> 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?
>
> Brgds
> PAR
>
> Brgds
> PAR
>
    PAR what you want is the Re-SPIN of F7 if it exists yet. It is F7 
with all the updates. I do not know about Bit-torrent but it sounds 
fishy to me :-)


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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