John Prentice wrote: >Jon > > > >>The worst part of the whole experience was downloading the updates >>necessary for compiling EMC2 and a few other things I need on the system >>from >>us.archive.ubuntu.com, which is appallingly slow! I was averaging about >>3 K bytes a second! But, I finally got it done. >> >> >> >Interesting, over in UK with Ubuntu I was amazed that I regularly get over >200kb/s (on 2 Mbit ADSL line) on updates. (1 GHz Thinkpad T23 FWIW) > > > I'm thinking the naysayers who claim that Linux is a dead dog, with .1% or some made-up number of users, is clearly not true. There must be a lot of people downloading updates at all times of day to bog that server down.
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