Re: [PLUG] URL to download xubuntu live?

2023-01-13 Thread Russell Senior
On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 12:55 PM MC_Sequoia wrote: > > > http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/ubuntu-cdimage/xubuntu/releases/22.04/release/xubuntu-22.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso > > > > For what it's worth, FFOX balked at this link w. a message that it's > insecure, non-https, and that the file may be

Re: [PLUG] URL to download xubuntu live?

2023-01-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 13 Jan 2023, MC_Sequoia wrote: "Desktop" just refers to a non-file server distribution. Some distros, like Debian, don't have separate file server & desktop distros. That's what I thought. Thanks for confirming. Rich

Re: [PLUG] URL to download xubuntu live?

2023-01-13 Thread MC_Sequoia
> Thanks. He uses a laptop but I'm sure the URL will help him. > > Regards, > > Rich "Desktop" just refers to a non-file server distribution. Some distros, like Debian, don't have separate file server & desktop distros. I run Debian on an old, beat-up, low resource HP laptop. Desktop

Re: [PLUG] URL to download xubuntu live?

2023-01-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 13 Jan 2023, Russell Senior wrote: Ubuntu derived iso's are "live-cd" with an install option. Thanks, Russell. Rich

Re: [PLUG] URL to download xubuntu live?

2023-01-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 13 Jan 2023, MC_Sequoia wrote: This https link to Ubuntu's official site provides a good intro to Ubuntu, https://ubuntu.com/desktop and here's a link to the many flavors of the Ubuntu Desktop distro, of which there are now 8,https://ubuntu.com/desktop/flavours Thanks. He uses a

Re: [PLUG] URL to download xubuntu live?

2023-01-13 Thread MC_Sequoia
> http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/ubuntu-cdimage/xubuntu/releases/22.04/release/xubuntu-22.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso > For what it's worth, FFOX balked at this link w. a message that it's insecure, non-https, and that the file may be tampered with or corrupted during download. This https link to

Re: [PLUG] URL to download xubuntu live?

2023-01-13 Thread Russell Senior
http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/ubuntu-cdimage/xubuntu/releases/22.04/release/xubuntu-22.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso Ubuntu derived iso's are "live-cd" with an install option. On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 12:23 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > A friend who still uses Windows asked me today for an open source >

[PLUG] URL to download xubuntu live?

2023-01-13 Thread Rich Shepard
A friend who still uses Windows asked me today for an open source replacement for Office365 and Acrobat. I followed up by sending him the URLs for LibreOffice.org and several web sites that offer F/OSS replacements for Acrobat on Windows. He's not yet ready to defenestrate, but I'd like to send