[PlanetCCRMA] Fedora 7 better than 8 for Planet/Linux Newbie? ISO respins for 7?

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 23:10 +0000, Chuck Cooper wrote:
> There seem to be lots of (understandable, temporary) glitches with the
> very new Fedora 8 Planet stuff. Would it be easier for a newbie (me)
> to start with Fedora 7 and the Fedora 7 version of Planet?  I'll be
> using a Delta 44 PCI audio interface.

At this point I would still recommend Fedora 7. 

The newer versions of the kernel (2.6.23.x) still have some issues with
realtime in my tests. 

-- Fernando


> Meanwhile, the ISO re-spins of Fedora 7 seem to have been replaced by
> some kind of "jigdo" stuff which I'd like not to learn about.. Only
> Fedora 8 is still available as a nice ISO image at
> FedoraProject.org  .   Anybody know of a place to get a cleanly
> updated monolithic Fedora 7?  DiscountLinuxDVD.com does sell that for
> a pittance and seemed nice when I ordered Fedora 8.  But now that I
> know how to download an ISO (wow), it seems odd that I can't just
> download a monolithic Fedora 7 without some scary-looking jigdo file
> that probably needs Linux already running to do its thing...
>  
> Thanks to the Planet/Linux mavens who helped with my earlier batch of
> basic questions.