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

[Cameron Miller <cdmiller@adams.edu>]

With lots of ISO's are being offered by bit torrent these days, I think 
eventually this will be a non issue.

- cameron

rtc wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A guick question about "etiquette"....  is it considered 'bad form' to use a
> download accelerator to grab an .iso or straight distro??    I  get speeds
> of  high 100's to 200K plus on Windows sites ....   I know that these
> programs make multiple connections to a server but I don't know the
> technology behind them ....  are these "virtual" connections or the
> eqivalent of seperate logins  ....   If using them precludes others from
> logging in it is simply "rude"  .....    Would appreciate knowing as the
> speed inclrease is substantial....
>
> Bob Chapel
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Doug Loss" <drloss@suscom.net>
> To: <schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net>
> Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 8:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [school-discuss] Knoppix vs. Freeduc vs. ???
>
>
>
> > On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 20:38, 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.
> > Take a look here:
> >
> > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/MIRRORS.html
> >
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