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Re: [school-discuss] Knoppix vs. Freeduc vs. ???



I found another mirror in Hungary, ftp.kando.hu. It's coming in about
55k. Good enough, thanks.
Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com
http://www.originsresource.org
-----Original Message-----
From: Burkhard Woelfel <versuchsanstalt@gmx.de>
To: schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net
<schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net>
Date: Thursday, June 05, 2003 7:56 PM
Subject: Re: [school-discuss] Knoppix vs. Freeduc vs. ???


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I am getting 70KB/s from
<http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/Linux/vectorlinux/iso/> at the
moment.

- - Burkhard


On Friday 06 June 2003 02:38, Dave Prentice wrote:
> Doug,
>     Thanks for the link. Try clicking on it - you get "file not
found"
> in about 50 different languages. I finally found a mirror site but
the
> download rate is only about 2.5k / sec on my DSL line. They seem to
be
> really busy. Looks like it will take days to get the ISO, but I was
> hoping to have it by tomorrow. I'm trying to find a better mirror
> site.
> Dave Prentice
> prentice@instruction.com
> http://www.originsresource.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net>
> To: schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net
> <schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net>
> Date: Thursday, June 05, 2003 5:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [school-discuss] Knoppix vs. Freeduc vs. ???
>
> >On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 18:26, Dave Prentice wrote:
> >> All I want is some distro that
> >> will be useful to students and will still run as a standalone on
>
> old,
>
> >> limited hardware. Is there no hope for me?
> >
> >Well, I can't speak to whether there's hope for you or not :-), but
>
> you
>
> >should take a look at Vector Linux
> >(http://www.ibiblio.org/vectorlinux/).  It claims to run in as
little
>
> as
>
> >16 MB of RAM and 435 MB of drive space.
> >
> >--
> >If this helped you please take the time to rate the value
> >of this post; just click on the Affero link below.
> >
> >http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=drloss
> >
> >Doug Loss              All you need in this life is
> >drloss@suscom.net      ignorance and confidence,
> >                       and then success is sure.
> >                         Mark Twain
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