Re: United Linux Public Beta

2002-09-26 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
No mirror in Europe? Is SuSE making the same thing available? That is, how much of the UL beta is Caldera-specific and how much is the shared distro? -- ++===+ | Roger Oberholtzer | E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | OPQ

Re: United Linux Public Beta

2002-09-26 Thread Pam R
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 10:07 pm, Jim Bonnet wrote: Regarding the US mirror: http://www.sco.com/products/beta sign up for the openbeta and you get access right away to the UL stuff.. That site should give better bandwidth I would think. And you can choose 'Unknown Country' from

Re: United Linux Public Beta

2002-09-26 Thread ronnie gauthier
That is for the poor traveler with laptop enroute from Afghanstan to Iran,Iraq,Pakistan or other parts even drier and dustier. ;-) On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 19:15:45 +0100 Pam R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 25 September 2002 10:07 pm, Jim Bonnet wrote: Regarding the US mirror:

United Linux Public Beta

2002-09-25 Thread Pam R
Anyone managed to get try it yet? http://download.unitedlinux.com/cgi-bin/reg.pl -- Pam R: Don't put off until tomorrow what you can leave to the day after. Linux StepbyStep: http://www.linux-sxs.org/stepbystep.html ___ Linux-users mailing list

Re: United Linux Public Beta

2002-09-25 Thread Net Llama!
Its downloading right now at about .5K/s. High demand my ass. More like insufficient supply. On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Pam R wrote: Anyone managed to get try it yet? http://download.unitedlinux.com/cgi-bin/reg.pl -- ~~

Re: United Linux Public Beta

2002-09-25 Thread Jim Bonnet
Net Llama! wrote: Its downloading right now at about .5K/s. High demand my ass. More like insufficient supply. there were over 4000 signups in 6hours and there is a 400 person limit to the ftp site. regards- jim ___ Linux-users mailing

Re: United Linux Public Beta

2002-09-25 Thread Net Llama!
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Jim Bonnet wrote: Net Llama! wrote: Its downloading right now at about .5K/s. High demand my ass. More like insufficient supply. there were over 4000 signups in 6hours and there is a 400 person limit to the ftp site. And how does that explain why my connection

Re: United Linux Public Beta

2002-09-25 Thread John Voigt
On 09/25/2002 02:20 PM, Net Llama! wrote: On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Jim Bonnet wrote: Net Llama! wrote: Its downloading right now at about .5K/s. High demand my ass. More like insufficient supply. Hmmm. Mine downloaded at a respectable rate, but for some reason I can only get to about 397M

Re: United Linux Public Beta

2002-09-25 Thread Jim Bonnet
Net Llama! wrote: On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Jim Bonnet wrote: Net Llama! wrote: Its downloading right now at about .5K/s. High demand my ass. More like insufficient supply. there were over 4000 signups in 6hours and there is a 400 person limit to the ftp site. And how

Re: United Linux Public Beta

2002-09-25 Thread Net Llama!
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, John Voigt wrote: On 09/25/2002 02:20 PM, Net Llama! wrote: On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Jim Bonnet wrote: Net Llama! wrote: Its downloading right now at about .5K/s. High demand my ass. More like insufficient supply. Hmmm. Mine downloaded at a respectable rate, but

Re: United Linux Public Beta

2002-09-25 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 15:56:49 -0400 (EDT), Net Llama! wrote: On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, John Voigt wrote: On 09/25/2002 02:20 PM, Net Llama! wrote: On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Jim Bonnet wrote: Net Llama! wrote: Its downloading right now at about

Re: United Linux Public Beta

2002-09-25 Thread Andrew Mathews
Net Llama! wrote: snip Currently i'm about 4% done with CD1 (and i sit on an internet backbone, so this isn't a bandwith issue). CD3 is at 8%, and CD2 just keeps dying after 2 or 3%. *shrug* Apparently the UL folks never heard of something called a mirror. Funny, Redhat has more mirrors

Re: United Linux Public Beta

2002-09-25 Thread Jim Bonnet
Currently i'm about 4% done with CD1 (and i sit on an internet backbone, so this isn't a bandwith issue). CD3 is at 8%, and CD2 just keeps dying after 2 or 3%. *shrug* Apparently the UL folks never heard of something called a mirror. Funny, Redhat has more mirrors than i can shake a stick

Re: United Linux Public Beta

2002-09-25 Thread Keith Antoine
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 03:34, Pam R wrote: Anyone managed to get try it yet? http://download.unitedlinux.com/cgi-bin/reg.pl I am onlist and am d/l it over the weekend, but Jim Conner is also on the old list and he has installed it; waiting for an opinion. -- Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka

Re: United Linux Public Beta

2002-09-25 Thread Jim Bonnet
Pam R wrote: Anyone managed to get try it yet? http://download.unitedlinux.com/cgi-bin/reg.pl Regarding the US mirror: http://www.sco.com/products/beta sign up for the openbeta and you get access right away to the UL stuff.. That site should give better bandwidth I would think. Jim

Re: United Linux Public Beta

2002-09-25 Thread Marvin Dickens
RANT For the first time in several years, I'm not going to try the latest and greatest from what was Caldera, now SCO Group, and their new playmates. They essentially shit on their customers, laughed in their faces about it, and said We don't care what you think. Now when they want to

Re: United Linux Public Beta

2002-09-25 Thread Net Llama!
Jim Bonnet wrote: Currently i'm about 4% done with CD1 (and i sit on an internet backbone, so this isn't a bandwith issue). CD3 is at 8%, and CD2 just keeps dying after 2 or 3%. *shrug* Apparently the UL folks never heard of something called a mirror. Funny, Redhat has more mirrors

Re: United Linux Public Beta

2002-09-25 Thread Jim Bonnet
So you're saying that i'm the first person to suggest that you should have worldwide mirrors from a product that you wish to market globally? Who's asleep at the wheel? hm, I dont believe I ever suggested that... US download site which I posted earlier- http://www.sco.com/products/beta

Re: United Linux Public Beta

2002-09-25 Thread Marvin Dickens
Out of curiosity, I carefully read all of the propoganda on the UL website. What I got out of it is that they are attempting to create a Linux standard within or 0out of the existing Linux standard. In other words, a way to ensure operability between various Linux releases within the