> Another idea, implemented. > > The broadband connection at home is a bit slow: it would take 18 hours to > upload the three ISOs. _But_ I've put them on my company's internal network
well, the good part of multi-source download is that you can get faster and faster as more people get the same file -- with edonkey you start sharing chunks of the files even if you just started downloading...-- and since several people already have the isos, it's not such a bad start point. however i see your point. anyway i've already looked for Mandrake con edonkey to see what comes up and found out there's a lot of people sharing Mandrake 8.1 and 8.2 ! > (with permission) and advertised their presence on the intranet. That > potentially soaks up 11,000 users directly, who can download at about > 28MB/sec, and goodness knows how many others indirectly (pass the CDs). sounds good! > I also note that the Mandrake Linux Web site is extremely close to being > slashdotted - it took about 2 minutes to load the front page. > > Alastair yup. the word spread pretty fast. looks good, too ;o) this is why i won't even try to download from the official mirrors at least until next week. (i remember rushing to get Mdk 8.2 as soon as i saw a post in here: "8.2 is out, go get it" and it actually took me 4 days to get the three discs..) Damian -- boot into windows? what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating systems?
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