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RedHat Linux: Fedora 9
Carol Haynes:
If you need a Gmail/Google account, email me at [email protected] and I'll send you an invitation.
-zridling (January 23, 2009, 06:22 AM)
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You don't need to any more - you just sign up for one.
40hz:
I'd be happy to snailmail you a copy of the Fedora DVD if you'd like.
Same goes for Ubuntu and several other distros. Let me know what you want. :)
Just PM me a mailing address and I'll get it out to you if I have it.
Despite the negative attitude many people have towards the USPS, they can still hit most continental US addresses in 2-3 business days. In my home state (CT) 90% of the stuff I mail in the morning to CT addresses arrives the following business day.
I don't know if that's the rule everywhere (CT is one of the smallest and most developed states) but up here, the mail system does work.
IDEA: Maybe we NIX people can set up some informal disk exchange for OSS and save our fellow DoCo members some bandwidth? Not everybody has fast connections, and several ISPs are looking to stop providing "unlimited use" accounts. AT&T is already trying a "test" out in Nevada.
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P.S. Edvard: check your messages?
steeladept:
I honestly don't know why these various groups can't just decide on a good way to describe these different systems! That said, in Fedora's case, they mean the i386 to be a Wintel compatible 32 bit OS. The x86_64 is the 64 bit Wintel. I think they used this notation because so many people write 64 bit as AMD_64 which (I guess) specifies the AMD 64 bit extensions as well as the 32 bit core. AFAIK AMD64 and Intel64 are completely compatible when it comes to most 64 bit client OS's.
With that explaination, unless you want to use a 64 bit OS and have a 64 bit processor, I strongly suggest the i386 version. As for the live CD option, that is not a bad way to go so you can see how it works. If you like it, *most* live CD's have an installer right on the desktop that you can then use to permanently install the system on your hard drive. With what you already have, that may or may not be an issue.
cmpm:
Provided by DownloadSquad.
Fedora 10 is at the top of the list here.
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/01/11/20-awesome-free-os-downloads-that-arent-windows-7/
A 3.5 gig download it says-
http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora
You can create a Virtual DVD Drive and load the ISO in it with Daemon Lite.
http://forum.daemon-tools.cc/download.php?mode=ViewCategory&catid=5
It works.
40hz:
unless you want to use a 64 bit OS and have a 64 bit processor, I strongly suggest the i386 version.
-steeladept (January 23, 2009, 10:16 AM)
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As things now stand, you're usually much better off going with a 32-bit distro, even if you have a 64-bit processor, unless you have a very specific application or requirement in mind. And even then, the performance gains vary greatly depending upon which apps you're running.
There are still a lot of driver support and hardware compatibility issues with 64-bit distros, including the ones from such major players as Ubuntu.
A general rule of thumb: If you don't know whether or not you need a 64-bit OS, then you probably don't.
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