From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 15:26:19 +0200 From: "Laurent Malvert" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] 2 newbe questions of a general nature In-Reply-To: <6d4621311bf16f2712f9933ad4a4a22d@coraid.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <6d4621311bf16f2712f9933ad4a4a22d@coraid.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3fff241c-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 4/5/07, erik quanstrom wrote: > 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. > what about setting up a bittorrent tracker ? it could solve the issue and allow to have several versions of the ISO available online for some time from various sources. -- Laurent Malvert [laurent.malvert@gmail.com]