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

[Roy Vestal]

Guess I should send the Fedora 7 link huh?  ;)

http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/7/i386/

YMMV

Roy Vestal wrote:
> Chuck,
> Check the mirror list for a mirror near you! You should see the 
> "Mirror list filter" in the upper left hand corner:
>
> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/8/
>
> FWIW:
> I down loaded, the Fedora 7 KDE Live CD (I prefer KDE over Gnome) and 
> just installed that to my hard drive. Then ran "yum update" from the 
> command line to get updated. Then I simply followed the directions on 
> Planet CCRMA to install my apps.  :)
>
> You can do that with either the Fedora 7 Live CD (Gnome desktop), or 
> the Fedora 7 KDE Live CD (KDE desktop).
>
> HTH
>
> Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
>> 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 Meanwhile, the ISO re-spins of Fedora 7 seem to have been replaced by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.
>>>     
>>
>>
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