Re: ITEC: Missing CDs, general thoughts
I do not know if it is too late but fedora has live CD ISOs avalable for download if you had blank disks and a burner
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 05:40:21 -0800 (PST) From: Leo Mauler <webgiant@yahoo.com> Subject: ITEC: Missing CDs, general thoughts To: kclug@kclug.org Message-ID: <178704.55292.qm@web56606.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
We didn't have any Linux CDs yesterday, so we have been telling people to go to shipit.ubuntu.com. I just checked ShipIt this morning and the turnaround time for a free Ubuntu Linux CD is up to ten weeks, so anyone who came by our booth on Wednesday is in for a bit of a shock if they want to try out Linux.
I'll see if I can find some paper sleeves and burn a dozen or two Ubuntu Linux CDs, but the official Ubuntu CDs we had last year would look a lot better.
In general ITEC's new management is a mixed bag. They don't seem to have charged regular IT people for admission, not even to attend the conference lectures, but to compensate for this they have raised exhibitor booth rates. Even with free admission to everything, attendance wasn't as high as last year.
OTOH, they did hand out free box lunches to everyone, exhibitors and attendees, including choice of soda or bottled water. They also didn't mind giving you a second box lunch if the first one wasn't quite enough. If word gets around about the free box lunches they hand out around noon, Thursday attendance may be a lot higher than Wednesday.
I think he was referring to the latest release, which they opened the gates for torrent downloads at approximately 9:05AM this morning. I started the download then for the i386 and x86_64 versions. When I have verified their checksums, I will post them to http://txrx.dyndns.org/GNU-Linux/Fedora/which is my server on roadrunner. There will be a 8/ directory sometime later today. I'd be curious if anyone also within KC roadrunner can download them from me at higher-than-my-cap speeds being that we're local. On 11/8/07, Brian Kelsay <ripcrd@gmail.com> wrote:
Don't they all? Except maybe RHEL.
On 11/8/07, Philip Dorr <> wrote:
I do not know if it is too late but fedora has live CD ISOs avalable for download if you had blank disks and a burner.
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On Nov 8, 2007 1:34 PM, Billy Crook <billycrook@gmail.com> wrote:
I think he was referring to the latest release, which they opened the gates for torrent downloads at approximately 9:05AM this morning. I started the download then for the i386 and x86_64 versions. When I have verified their checksums, I will post them to http://txrx.dyndns.org/GNU-Linux/Fedora/ which is my server on roadrunner. There will be a 8/ directory sometime later today. I'd be curious if anyone also within KC roadrunner can download them from me at higher-than-my-cap speeds being that we're local.
I can test later for you if you want, but I already got my copy of the bits. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com )
On 11/8/07, Billy Crook <billycrook@gmail.com> wrote:
I think he was referring to the latest release, which they opened the gates for torrent downloads at approximately 9:05AM this morning.
And I have consistently avoided pushing the latest version of ANYTHING to a newbie. I tell people to use Ubuntu 7.04 and let seven months of patches update rather than using 7.10 and have trouble. Only after a release has been out a few months do I want to put it in the hands of someone who might let a bad first experience with Linux become their last as well. We've seen specific horror stories that bear out the wisdom of the "wait to upgrade" philosophy. Let those eager beavers gamma-test the software. You can even be one of them, if you have a "non mission critical" box to play with, or do like Jim Herrmann last night and make a separate partition to hold the new OS version (the old one's there as a fallback, and you can diff config files and figure out what you changed last time....)
On 11/8/07, Monty J. Harder <mjharder@gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/8/07, Billy Crook <billycrook@gmail.com> wrote:
I think he was referring to the latest release, which they opened the gates for torrent downloads at approximately 9:05AM this morning.
And I have consistently avoided pushing the latest version of ANYTHING to a newbie. I tell people to use Ubuntu 7.04 and let seven months of patches update rather than using 7.10 and have trouble. Only after a release has been out a few months do I want to put it in the hands of someone who might let a bad first experience with Linux become their last as well.
We've seen specific horror stories that bear out the wisdom of the "wait to upgrade" philosophy. Let those eager beavers gamma-test the software. You can even be one of them, if you have a "non mission critical" box to play with, or do like Jim Herrmann last night and make a separate partition to hold the new OS version (the old one's there as a fallback, and you can diff config files and figure out what you changed last time....)
I think that's excellent advice. I recently talked my girlfriend into installing Linux, so we installed 7.10 within a week or so of the final release... I was eager to see it... and there have definitely been quirks. Nothing too serious, but I wouldn't have known how to fix them without using the command line. She's not quite there yet.
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