From: "Erik Heil" <eheil@patmedia.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Debian or slackware?
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 15:38:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <002301c3ac81$a77c5d90$0201a8c0@eheil> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031116201227.GB32612@gmx.net>
yeah, that app sucks for downloading. Bandwidth is terrible for a lack of
better words. From a good FTP mirror, I average about 360 Kbps.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@gmx.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: Debian or slackware?
> I tried bittorrent. took 6 hours to grab the first cd so I dropped it
> and downloaded the second and third cds in like an hour each.
> On Sun, Nov
> 16, 2003 at 12:57:05PM -0700, Aaron Cannon wrote:
> > At 10:05 AM 11/16/03, Chris Gilland wrote:
> > <snip>
> >
> > >> jes, there are I think like 4 CD's to Slackware 9.1 but I believe the
> > >last
> > >> two are just source code, so it's up to you whether you want them,
but
> > >> you'll certainly need the first two CD's... Especially if you wanna
use
> > >> Gnome with Gnopernicus.
> >
> >
> >
> > I disagree. I had much better results with bittorrent. Also, I really
> > like the idea of distributing the bandwidth among users, instead of
having
> > one or two sites primarily carry the load.
> >
> >
> > --
> > "It makes me mad when people say I turned and ran like a scared rabbit.
> > Maybe it was like an angry rabbit, who was going to fight in another
fight,
> > away from the first fight."
> > -- "Deep Thoughts" by Jack Handy
> >
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` Jacob Schmude
` Steve Holmes
` Alex Snow
` Glenn Ervin at home
` Thomas Stivers
` Alex Snow
` Chris Gilland
` Aaron Cannon
` Alex Snow
` Aaron Cannon
` Erik Heil [this message]
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