Re: Ubuntu 7.10 DVDs available at Barnes & Noble and Borders
- From: "geoffrey froner" <geoffrey.froner@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:40:21 -0500
Thanks for the heads up about getting the Ubu DVD. It would be great if
other distros did the same. (What would it be if Billy did likewise?
Mind-boggling). Keep in mind that you cant leap over upgrades... what I
mean is that you need to go from Edgy Eft to Feisty Fawn and then to Gutsy
Gibbon, else there may be problems. Actually, I've read it in many places
and tend to believe it to be true. One way around it would be to format the
disk which holds Efty and then install GG as a fresh install.
Cheers,
Geoffrey
On Jan 30, 2008 6:27 PM, =JeffH <Jeff.Hodges@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ubuntu 7.10 DVDs available at Barnes & Noble and Borders--
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http://kingsmountain.com/blog/archives/2008/01/30/ubuntu-710-dvds-available-at
-barnes-noble-and-borders/>
I was browsing in the newsstand section at my local Barnes & Noble
recently,
and noticed a bright red & white magazine with "Ubuntu 7.10 + edubuntu,
kubuntu, xubuntu" across its cover. Upon reading further I noticed it
contains
two bootable DVDs, one with the aforementioned four distributions in
32-bit,
and the other with the same four in 64-bit. The price is $15. Wow, very
cool.
As I am presently running Kubuntu 6.10 "Edgy Eft" on my lapstation and
thinking about upgrading, I bought it. I've played around with the 32-bit
DVD
and booted up each of the distros, and installed Kubuntu on a separate
disk
just to check if all works ok, and it did.
The magazine includes articles about installing and configuring, with lots
of
illustrations and screen shots. Well-suited for checking-out Ubuntu by
newly
interested parties.
Apparently, the publishing company behind this (as well as "Linux Identity
Office" and "Fedora 8 - Linux Identity Kit") is OXYpress LLC, with
presences
in both France and the USA.
Of course, one can always download any and all flavors of Ubuntu for free
from..
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu
..but I\u2019ve been wanting to check out the edubuntu and xubuntu
flavors, as
well as 64-bit Kubuntu, so picking it up in a nice pre-done package is
great.
Saves the hassle of downloading and burning discs and such.
I also noted a similar Mandrake GNU/Linux distro magazine, apparently from
a
different publisher (but I'm not sure, don't quote me).
=JeffH sez check it out ;)
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