On 12/6/06, KAPIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all, > i read a mail, someone was sayin that DVD quality shipped wid Linux for you are not so good as compared to the PC quest megazine, is it true? cause i'm waiting for DEc 2006 isie of LFY for fedora core DVD, > and will you plz tell me which megazine i should purchase Linux For you or PC Quest?
Go for PCQ, as LFY has an abysmal record with their CD/DVD quality. I am not sure how fast they would respond even in case you wanted to get the DVD replaced if it was faulty. Rather than being damaged in transportation, I believe the discs themselves are of a very inferior quality. What would you expect anyway after considering the sort of ad revenue they might be generating? There is one problem with the PCQ DVD. The magazine has labeled it PCQXtreme, which under linux (FC6) gets mounted under /media, as "PCQXtreme" with root-only privileges. Only, the quotes are included in the name, and the characters used for them are not the ones I have written above. They go something like \324 and \234 (or therebouts. Check .hal-mtab on the DVD). This creates a big problem when you try to replace the baseurl in /etc/yum/yum.repos.d/fedora-core.repo with the path to the RPMS folder on the DVD. I am trying to put the whole path to the DVD as mounted under the file:// url. Results to follow. -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
