A nice compromise is to by the RHN sub for support issues, and use the BitTorrent availability for the iso images, if having it yesterday is an issue.
BT averaged 82KBps down on my xDSL, while I was sharing back out at a steady 33. These are god numbers compared to many ftps. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 1:29 PM Subject: Re: Shrike ISOs... > I think legality would be hard to fight with the nature of RHL. That said, it > may not be ethical. It depends on how you look at it, for a paying RHN customer > such as myself, the 72 hour download time for shrike ISOs is bad as well. For a > non paying customer, well, you decide for yourself. > I do think this whole ordeal was a big mistake. Sell Red Hat customers on this > new service, based on one feature. And that feature is so slow as to be > useless... seems it would be bad for business. On the other hand, to those of > us who have been paying RHN subscribers for the past year or so, this is the > first time we have had any issues with ISOs on release day. > > Just my $.02 > > Justin > > On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 17:55, Jeremiah Cornelius wrote: > > > > I haven't found the free mirror server yet. Help! > > > > > > Everyone who wants to leech early, and often ought to look into BitTorrent. > > > All the 3- binary isos and MD5 are available FAST. > > > > > > An explaination of availablity (and a lot about BitTorrent) is here: > > > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/31/1256236&mode=nested > > > > Is this legal? > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > Felipe Alfaro Solana > > Linux Registered User #287198 > > http://counter.li.org > > > > > > > > -- > > Phoebe-list mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list > > > > -- > Phoebe-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list > -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
