newbie battle over debian, redhat or slackware

[Brian Borowski]

I agree with Janina.  Why on earth would Kirk want to deal with the
sourceforge stuff, then we'd have to fight through their horrible website
to find the damn thing; well, at least if we actually wanted the sources.
It's not too bad once you get used to it, but what he's got right now, is
infinitely better.

Brian Borowski


On Wed, 1 May 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:

> Heavens! Kirk runs his own wonderful server. What need has Speakup for SourceForge and their horendous nav bar??
>
> On Wed, 1 May 2002, Alex Snow wrote:
>
> > Speaking of sourceforge, Why doesn't speakup have a page over there? The
> > give you 100mb, though they may give you more if you need it, CVS, a shell
> > acount using ssh, and lots more stuff.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at attbi.com>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 12:45 PM
> > Subject: Re: newbie battle over debian, redhat or slackware
> >
> >
> > > 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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> 				Janina Sajka, Director
> 				Technology Research and Development
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> 				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
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