On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Herschel Krustofsky
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've really been looking forward to b95, as it incorporates Firefox 3.01
> (apparently better than the one from mozilla.org) as well as other fixes. I'm
> even hoping it installs on a laptop with ACPI rather than immediate panic. :-)
>
> Unfortunately, the b95 download is clearly broken. The 1 DVD ISO download
> reports 473 MB on the screen (obviously wrong), and even when you click thru
> to download (without SDM), you get a 404. The 2 DVD ISO download seems like
> it is the right size, but again you get the 404.
>
> Even when the files are in place, as mentioned above, the network performance
> is wretched. On 100 MB downstream connections, I've never gotten more than
> 400 Kb/s download & usually get around 100 Kb/s. That's at best 50 % slower
> than most Linux distros & worse, slower than downloads from Microsoft. This
> is from Sun, "the network is the computer" !
Yep - DLC sucks, always has, always will. It's broken (TM).
> I get the feeling that most folks inside of Sun use the internal build
> servers & never deal with this stuff, so maybe no one is paying attention.
>
> I agree completely with Bruno, getting the distribution out there properly is
> a showstopper.
Agreed. Its unprofessional and makes Sun look like amateur hour.
Regards,
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