F7 is working fine

[PerAntonRønning]

Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Thursday 23 August 2007 18:12, PerAntonRønning wrote:
>   
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>     
>>>    I had trouble getting to F7. I really didn't want to but it seemed
>>> the timing was right for it. After over 200 updates F7 is good working
>>> Linux. The first thing a new user needs to do is remove Totem and get
>>> the VLC media player. It has worked just fine through all the 200
>>> upgrades and plays anything from mp3 to .wav to DVD movies. It does it
>>> all. I get things from friends with Windows. VLC never fails to play
>>> them.
>>>
>>>    There is still some minor things broken but they might be due to MY
>>> hardware which is old. New computer is scheduled to be delivered today
>>> by UPS but they deliver very late, like 10:30 PM local. Then I will
>>> see if the new motherboard and SATA hard drives fix the problems.
>>>
>>>    A friend just loaded F7 again after getting the 200 updates and he
>>> says it is nothing like it was 3 months ago.
>>>       
>> Sounds good. But where is it? I have been looking around for a FC 7 iso
>> DVD, but all sites stop at /6 and then they list /development - is this
>> fc7? Is the iso DVD hidden within the .bittorrent, which I am absolutely
>> new to? I've never used bittorrent,  I have never needed to. As I
>> understand I have to download a torrent client, as a search tool(?) - is
>> that up the same alley as FTP?  Pardon my ignorance, but i have lots to do
>> and I must operate on a need to know basis. How do I extract the contents
>> of a torrent file, is that something the torrent client program takes care
>> of?
>>
>> Brgds
>> PAR
>>     
>
> You can get it from here:
> http://iso.linuxquestions.org/version.php?version=449
>
> I believe there are respins available for F7, which should have most updates 
> included, but don't know the URL for those.
>
> Nigel.
>   
I downloaded BitTorrent (rpm) for direct install, but it failed due to 
dependencies.
It needed some newer Python elements than I have at present. But no 
worries, I finally found
a FC 7 iso DVD and it is downloading now as we speak. It is huge, so it 
will take a while.

Brgds
PAR