F7 is working fine

[Les]

On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 10:34 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> 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 :-)

Bit-torrent is simply a way for many users to both retrieve a file and
add to the sources for distribution.  If you have Fedora already
running, you can just go to the add software pull down under
applications, and install bittorrent.  It runs in the background, will
restart automatically and resync with however much has already been
downloaded.  If you get tired of waiting for it, you can stop and
restart it with little penalty, so it is "all good".

I used it to retrive F7 (NOTE F7, not FC7 since the core and extras are
now all bundled together.)

Regards,
Les H