Re: Ubuntu 18.04

2018-06-12 Thread Shawn Fratis
You should consider making your own CD. It's pretty simple: go to the Ubuntu website and download the .iso for your computer, then burn as an image disc (you can right-click from the .iso in Windows to get this function). Burn to your CD (you will probably need a blank DVD-R), then restart your

RE: Ubuntu 18.04

2018-06-12 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Put a slightly different way - Actually, let me interrupt myself and say - if you start at distrowatch.com I seem to recall a LOT of links for where to buy install images. You might start there if you’re bound and determined to go buy something ;-) Ok, back to our regularly-scheduled email:

RE: Ubuntu 18.04

2018-06-12 Thread Carruth, Rusty
Now, THAT’s an even better solution than finding me! Highly recommended solution. From: PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Todd Cole Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2018 8:14 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: Ubuntu 18.04 Single DVD for 18.04 for

Re: Ubuntu 18.04

2018-06-12 Thread Stephen Partington
With ether every image to USB has been valid (barring bad drive or download) On Tue, Jun 12, 2018, 9:12 PM Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2018 14:30:19 -0700 > Matt Graham wrote: > > > On 2018-06-12 14:06, Stephen Partington wrote: > > > Generally speaking I do not use a CD/DVD to install

10,000 jobs could be lost to robots says Citi

2018-06-12 Thread techlists
The article says in part "...advances in automation will lead to the loss of over 5 million jobs in 15 major developed and emerging economies by 2020.". https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/32240/1-jobs-could-be-lost-to-robots-says-citi I'm starting to see lots of articles like this one.

Re: Ubuntu 18.04

2018-06-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 12 Jun 2018 14:30:19 -0700 Matt Graham wrote: > On 2018-06-12 14:06, Stephen Partington wrote: > > Generally speaking I do not use a CD/DVD to install an OS. I haven't > > for quite some time. I use a combination of Rufus and etcher to > > write installation media to [a] USB drive. >

Re: 10,000 jobs could be lost to robots says Citi

2018-06-12 Thread David Schwartz
Well, the Good News for folks on this list is that the software industry has still done virtually nothing to improve our own productivity, and as a result the Dept of Labor is still estimating a general shortage of over a million programmers by 2020. We (as in WE THE PEOPLE) should be

Re: Ubuntu 18.04

2018-06-12 Thread Matt Graham
On 2018-06-12 14:06, Stephen Partington wrote: Generally speaking I do not use a CD/DVD to install an OS. I haven't for quite some time. I use a combination of Rufus and etcher to write installation media to [a] USB drive. Wait, what? Why would you need any utilities at all to do that?

Re: Mint update errors ???

2018-06-12 Thread kitepilot
Mike, what;s the output of: cat /etc/issue ET Michael writes: ask on the mint forums. I think the sources need to be updated as the links are dead On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 10:28 PM, wrote: When I last tried to update a Dell laptop, I got these errors. How can I fix this? E:

Re: Mint update errors ???

2018-06-12 Thread kitepilot
I did...:) Joe, what's the output of: cat /etc/issue ET Michael writes: I'm sure you meant 'Joe' On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 3:51 PM, wrote: Mike, what;s the output of: cat /etc/issue ET Michael writes: ask on the mint forums. I think the sources need to be updated as the links

Re: Ubuntu 18.04

2018-06-12 Thread Stephen Partington
Generally speaking I Do not use a CD/DVD to install an OS. I havent for quite some time. I use a combination of Rufus and etcher to write installation media to USB drive. On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 8:24 AM, Carruth, Rusty wrote: > Now, THAT’s an even better solution than finding me! Highly

Re: Ubuntu 18.04

2018-06-12 Thread Stephen Partington
Rufus, is a windows based application and I have yet to find anything better for dealing with windows iso writing. etcher is very clean and is just a touch more graceful than using dd (for me) https://etcher.io/ On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 2:30 PM, Matt Graham wrote: > On 2018-06-12 14:06,

Re: Mint update errors ???

2018-06-12 Thread Michael
I'm sure you meant 'Joe' On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 3:51 PM, wrote: > Mike, what;s the output of: > cat /etc/issue > ET > > Michael writes: > >> ask on the mint forums. I think the sources need to be updated as the >> links >> are dead >> On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 10:28 PM, wrote: >> >>> When I

Ubuntu 18.04

2018-06-12 Thread mike enriquez
I would like to get a CD to  install Ubuntu 18.04. One site offers 12 CDs of repository files. I know many of you may make your own install CDs. I don't have the time so where is the best place to purchase these CDs.  Are that many CDs of repository files necessary? Help the Novice. Thanks a