Re: [Dorset] Alan Cox is Going!

2013-01-25 Thread Peter Merchant

On 25/01/13 02:03, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:

On 24/01/13 22:39, Ralph Corderoy wrote:

John Carlyle-Clarke was having trouble downloading it too recently, so
#dorset was saying.


And once I downloaded it, it wouldn't boot in VirtualBox, so I gave up.


Techrepublic gave it a good review, so I thought I would get it and 
replace W8 on my test box.

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/fedora-18-finally-to-be-released-with-game-changing-features/4105

Now thinking again while test box rests.

Peter M

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Re: [Dorset] Alan Cox is Going!

2013-01-24 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke

On 24/01/13 22:39, Ralph Corderoy wrote:

John Carlyle-Clarke was having trouble downloading it too recently, so
#dorset was saying.


And once I downloaded it, it wouldn't boot in VirtualBox, so I gave up.


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Re: [Dorset] Alan Cox is Going!

2013-01-24 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter,

> So he does not like Fedora 18. It's taken me 5 tries to download it

John Carlyle-Clarke was having trouble downloading it too recently, so
#dorset was saying.

> then it needed to be 'blown' to a DVD. The box I wanted to try it on
> only has a CD drive.

I think quite a few ISOs from the standard distros are bigger than CD
size now.  A USB flash drive is the normal media if the PC will boot
from it.

Cheers, Ralph.

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Re: [Dorset] Alan Cox is Going!

2013-01-24 Thread Peter Merchant

On 24/01/13 18:46, Terry Coles wrote:

Hi,

See https://plus.google.com/u/0/04121194250082892/posts/KW3TdRYwjr9

It's worth reading!

So he does not like Fedora 18. It's taken me 5 tries to download it, and 
then it needed to be 'blown' to a DVD. The box I wanted to try it on 
only has a CD drive.


Peter M

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[Dorset] Alan Cox is Going!

2013-01-24 Thread Terry Coles
Hi,

See https://plus.google.com/u/0/04121194250082892/posts/KW3TdRYwjr9

It's worth reading!

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