On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:31:47 -0400 (EDT) "D. Hugh Redelmeier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
> | From: John Jason Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > | I would suggest instead that you download the Ubuntu live/install CD > | for Feisty beta. The final should be released in just a few days, so > | the beta is very stable. >Here's the page on the mirror I used: > > http://ftp.wayne.edu/linux_distributions/ubuntu/feisty/ > > I like using BitTorrent because it makes me feel like less of a > leech. Unfortunately, my ISP is one of those that throttles outgoing > BT. I used mirrors.cat.pdx.edu because I'm a student there. Like you, I like to use torrents, but when I started the torrent it was painfully slow. So I decided that it was time to get back some of the tens of thousands of dollars I've paid that university. I stopped the torrent and just downloaded the ISO. Took about 12 minutes. I called a friend who was on campus with his Linux laptop and told him to get it while he was there. He said it took 2.5 minutes for the whole 698 MB. My university got a $100 MM grant from Google recently, and as a result we have awesome bandwidth. > It seems like a lot of distro activity is going on: a new Debian stable > (Etch) was released April 8 and Fedora Core 7 is scheduled for release > next month. My R3240 will remain my main computer, but I needed something for backups and as a second computer to get on the net with when I goober up the laptop -- an occurrence that is unfortunately common. So I built myself a new desktop with a couple of 320 GB SATA II drives to set up in software RAID 1. I've been installing various amd64 distros just to play with them. I tried Mepis, Gentoo, Mandriva, OpenSUSE, Fedora 7, CentOS 5, Debian Etch and Ubuntu Edgy. This morning I tried Feisty. The motherboard has a Realtek 8169 gigagit onboard, plus nVidia GeForce 6100, and all the rest is nVidia as well. The only ones that could handle the Realtek were Etch and Feisty. The rest either ignored it or went into a kernel panic. But Etch couldn't figure out the sound, which all the rest had no trouble with. And only Fedora 7 and CentOS 5 found and autoconfigured the nVidia 6100. However, having tried them all, I am most impressed with Feisty, in spite of the fact that I had to configure the video manually. I tried to play a movie to see how the vaunted multimedia features in Feisty would do. Totem popped up a window saying I needed more codecs and did I want to go get them? I told it yes, but afterwards it still couldn't play the movie. I closed Totem, then ejected and reinserted the movie, whereupon Totem popped up again, and again with the same message about needing more codecs. But this time the codecs it said I needed were different from the first time. I told it to go ahead and install them. Afterwards it still couldn't play the movie, although it almost does. There is a background screen in the viewing window, but the play buttons don't do anything. No more popups asking for additional codecs. Oh well. I also tried installing Flash by just downloading the tar.gz and following the instructions on Adobe's website. As I expected, the install failed with "ERROR: Your architecture, \x86-64\, is not supported by the Adobe Flash player installer." Oh well. I could use nspluginwrapper, but I think instead I'll install Opera 32-bit with --force-architecture as I did on my laptop. On the laptop I have the best of both worlds -- Firefox-64 without the annoyance of Flash, and Opera-32 with Flash in case I want to see something on youtube. Now I'm just finishing a backup of my entire laptop to the new computer. I'll do an apt-get dist-upgrade to the laptop afterwards. _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
