Re: [9fans] 2 newbe questions of a general nature

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>]

russ,

the plan 9 distribution is very nice and the careful work and thought
that went into the distribution.  i don't think there's anything stupid
about it.

however, 

On Thu Apr  5 11:13:00 EDT 2007, rsc@swtch.com wrote:
> Even if you are getting interrupted, the CD is at most 100MB
> compressed, which is only 5 hours at 56kbps, so you've got plenty
> of time to grab it in the 24-hour window.

i found that even with a 56k connection with compression
(which works against you in this case), the download took significantly 
longer.  modems can be difficult to keep connected.  this in addition
to the fact that i didn't know what time of day the new iso was cut,
made it nearly impossible to download the iso. 

- erik