Debian or slackware?

[Erik Heil]

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.
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From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
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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.
> >
> >
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