Re: [blfs-dev] Avoiding sourceforge

2012-09-13 Thread Armin K.
On 13.09.2012 10:18, Kenno Han wrote: I agree with this argument. Also, I am here to add more reason on that. Not only that the download speed is low, it is also hard for downloading process with scripts and text-based browser/downloader. I think that we should even avoid using javascripted

Re: [blfs-dev] Avoiding sourceforge

2012-09-13 Thread dueffert
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Kenno Han wrote: I agree with this argument. Also, I am here to add more reason on that. Not only that the download speed is low, it is also hard for downloading process with scripts and text-based browser/downloader. I have no problems downloading from sourceforge with

Re: [blfs-dev] Avoiding sourceforge

2012-09-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 13.09.2012 10:18, Kenno Han wrote: I agree with this argument. Also, I am here to add more reason on that. Not only that the download speed is low, it is also hard for downloading process with scripts and text-based browser/downloader. I think that we should even avoid

Re: [blfs-dev] Avoiding sourceforge

2012-09-13 Thread Fernando de Oliveira
Em 12-09-2012 18:29, Randy McMurchy escreveu: I am glad to hearing from you again. Was worried after your last message telling about the tornado, and every day thought about enquiring if all went well. -- []s, Fernando -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ:

[blfs-dev] Avoiding sourceforge

2012-09-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I mentioned before that I dislike sourceforge. I just had another instance as to why. I was updating the master files repository with virtuoso-opensource-6.1.6.tar.gz. That's about 115 MB. The download speed was generally less than 200 KB/sec. Sometimes as low as 15 KB/sec. In this case,

Re: [blfs-dev] Avoiding sourceforge

2012-09-12 Thread Randy McMurchy
On 9/12/2012 11:30 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I'd like to request that editors try to find alternative sites to sourceforge. If that's the only site available, please offer anduin as an alternate source. The only problem with that is everyone (including editors) do not know where the main hosting

Re: [blfs-dev] Avoiding sourceforge

2012-09-12 Thread Armin K.
On 12.09.2012 18:30, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I mentioned before that I dislike sourceforge. I just had another instance as to why. I was updating the master files repository with virtuoso-opensource-6.1.6.tar.gz. That's about 115 MB. The download speed was generally less than 200 KB/sec.

Re: [blfs-dev] Avoiding sourceforge

2012-09-12 Thread Matt Burgess
On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 16:29 -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: On 9/12/2012 11:30 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I'd like to request that editors try to find alternative sites to sourceforge. If that's the only site available, please offer anduin as an alternate source. The only problem with that is

Re: [blfs-dev] Avoiding sourceforge

2012-09-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matt Burgess wrote: On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 16:29 -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: On 9/12/2012 11:30 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I'd like to request that editors try to find alternative sites to sourceforge. If that's the only site available, please offer anduin as an alternate source. The only