Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] need help to install Linux ubuntu

 

On 11/13/2017 12:10 AM, 'Phil Crockford' pcc@g8ioa.co.uk [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
 
Thanks for your reply.
I have decided that someone is having a laugh at my expence and puting out bad copies of Lniux on the web so i have downloaded a copy of Linux Mint Cinnamon from www.linux.com and used that. It has worked ok. I created the boot drive from the ISO in the same way as i did the other copy and had no problems.
I can't imagine why anyone would want to put defective copies on the web but my advice to others is to make every effort to make sure that the OS is a good one.
My first impression of the OS is that it is much faster than windows at this moment.
There was a means of checking the ISO file on line at www.linux.com by doing a checksum on it.
Thanks to all that came back to me.

    I have no problem with www.linux.com, but I generally prefer to get flavors of Linux as close to the source as possible. Mind you, Linux Mint was hacked for about 5 minutes a couple of years back; they made the mistake of using Wordpress (motto: "We don't just have back doors; we ARE a back door!"). But note that the hack was found because the distro didn't match the checksum.

    Bart

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