newbie battle over debian, redhat or slackware

[Igor Gueths]

Hi all. Speaking of Sourceforge, they might be getting more bandwidth.
They are looking for people to host dl mirrors for them. The address for
that is bandwidth at sourceforge.net. And the part that I liked was that they
provide all the hardware. What that means, I'm not sure as of yet. I just
saw it at the bottom of some message posted to alsa-user. Just thought I'd
add that in regarding bandwidth.

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Steve Holmes wrote:

> Joe did an excellent tutorial on the setup of Slackware but beware
> that Speakup is now mainstreamed into new kernels directly from
> Slackware.com. just get the speakup.i or speakup.s disks, depending on
> whether you have a SCSI hard disk or IDE model.  The other files you
> would need to download are the A series, AP series and so on.  Yes, I
> know what you mean about sourceforge's download speeds - not verry
> pretty, are they.  ftp.slackware.com uses sourceforge.net for their
> host but I had a hell of a time downloading the iso images from there
> last summer.  I ended downloading them from Perdue or some place at
> over sixty K per second.
>
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 06:57:30PM -0700, Rob DeZonia wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> >      Have a couple questions.  First is about Debian.  When I go to
> > the Debian section of the Speakup ftp site, is everything I need to
> > download for a Debian installation there or do I have to go to the
> > Debian ftp site to download any other files?
> >      Now on to Slackware.  First thanks to Joe Norton if he is within
> > the sound of my synthesizer for the excellent Installing Slackware
> > tutorial.  When I went to the Slackware ftp site and went to 8.0 there
> > are about 25 subdirectories of files to download.  Must I download
> > them all?  That could be quite a job since the average speed has been
> > about 5K per second. lol
> >      Which of the 3 flavors I've mentioned has the easiest package
> > installer?  Thanks for letting me ramble.  I want my first Linux
> > install to be as painless as possible so that's why all the questions.
> >
> >           Rob
> >
> >
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