Questions about Ubuntu 18.04 live/install ISO

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:58:52 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 at 16:42, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
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> > I don't use Fedora.
> 
> CentOS is, indirectly, the downstream of Fedora.

NO! CentOS is *directly* downstream of RHEL ("bug for bug compatible"), *not*
Fedora...  A Fedora release is the *basis* for a given RHEL release.

CentOS / RHEL are LTS distros.

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> If you need things that are more current than CentOS offers, perhaps
> you should try.
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> > CentOS 7 is not even new enough -- it still uses an "outdated" (ESR) version
> > of Firefox and Chrome and Chromium won't run on it.
> 
> OK. I have barely tried it myself,  but I will take your word for it.
> 
> It might be new enough to run a new enough Linux in a VM, though.

No, CentOS 7 w/KVM has pretty much as hard a time of it, running Ubuntu 18.04. 
It is the old processor in the laptop -- not up to the job.

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> > And Fedora is not a LTS
> > release.
> 
> I am aware of that, thank you, yes.
> 
> >  I have no use for Chrome and don't really care for Chromium either,
> > but there are websites that do not work well, expect with bleeding edge
> > web browsers.  It sucks, but there is nothing I can do about companies who
> > hire overpaid webprogramers who are excessively and unnecessarily "clever"
> > (too clever for their own good).  *Some* of these websites I need to use from
> > time to time.
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> TBH, I entirely agree here.
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> > VMs on my *old* laptop is not really an option -- it does not do
> > virtualization very well. (Old Intel mobile chip.)
> 
> AFAICR VirtualBox does not _require_ Intel VT, and it will work fine
> with VT v1. KVM etc need it and probably need VT v2. May be worth a
> look. For desktop stuff  I find it _much_ easier.

I don't like VirtualBox. It has its own issues (for me). And that is asside
from download issues over a dialup connection.

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