Back from Strathfield

[laura_seabrook]

To make things complete, I lost my mobile phone last night.

However, this morning I had a phone call to say that it'd been found at Woollies in Strathfield. That being the case, I caught the train / bus / train down, picked it up, went to a newsagents, bought some lunch, and caught the next train (which left a minute of my getting on the platform) back to Cardiff. It got there with 40 minutes to spare before the last us home, so I did some shopping at ALDI's (and a newsagent's) while I waited.

Nice to be home. While I was at Strathfield I bought two Linux magazines, one had DVD distros of Ubuntu, and the other SUSE. Lots more stuff on these than there is on the CDs.

I think maybe  long boring periods of travel (where the only things I did were look out the window and listen to my MP3 player) might have been good for me.

Comments

[radargrrl.livejournal.com]

I take it you're unable to download an up-to-date .iso of any Linux distro at the moment? Is that why you're relying on magazines to find an installable copy?

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

Not exactly, but my monthly broadband quota is 30 Gb and a distro would by 5 Gb or a 1/6th of it. Kevin downloaded an iso of SUSE 11.0 before but it had checksum errors and would not install properly. A magazine disk is more likely to be complete.

I installed SUSE 11.0 yesterday from one DVD, and might try Ubuntu tonight, but only after I research how to set this up (other than an extra entry in GRUB).